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Definition of Kidskins
1. kidskin [n] - See also: kidskin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidskins
Literary usage of Kidskins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"To dye kidskins a fine and beautiful black.—Take the skins, and wash them ...
Then stretch them upon a string to dry, and for every dozen of kidskins take ..."
2. Original Treatises, Dating from the XIIth to the XVIIIth Centuries, [o]n the by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"To dye sheep or kidskins a fine and good black.—Take the kidskin or sheepskin,
and wash it and wring it till the water comes off it clear ; then take galls ..."
3. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"See article " Leather," in Wilson's Rural Cyc., for mode of preparing the varieties
of leather, tanning kidskins for French ..."
4. Queens of Old Spain by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1906)
"... fifty amber-dressed skins, two hundred and fifty scented kidskins for gloves,
a large sum in silver crowns, and other things.1 1 From MSS. of Diego de ..."
5. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"In winter the foot and moccasin is protected by a kind of overshoe consisting of
green sheep- or kidskins, which are secured to the foot with the woolly ..."
6. Persian Life and Customs: With Scenes and Incidents of Residence and Travel by Samuel Graham Wilson (1896)
"... and washing dyed cotton cloth, and kidskins to be salted down for exportation.
Women, too, had brought their quilts and carpets to clean, and with faces ..."
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