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Definition of Lambskin
1. Noun. The skin of a lamb with the wool still on.
2. Noun. Skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on.
Definition of Lambskin
1. n. The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.
Definition of Lambskin
1. Noun. The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. This is a very fine form of leather. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lambskin
1. the skin of a lamb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lambskin
1. 1. The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively. 2. A kind of woolen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambskin
Literary usage of Lambskin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty years in the wilderness of pills and powders, or, The cogitations and by William Andrus Alcott (1859)
"It will not, certainly, be very easy to find such a disease as the lambskin
disease in any of our modern nosologies. But he will better understand me when ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"See Butler's Lives of the Saints, at Sept. 17. Be ready, as your lives shrill
answer it, At Coventry, upon St. Lambert's Day. Eich. Il, i, 1. To lambskin. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"See Butler's Lives of the Saints, at Sept. 17. Be ready, ae your lives shall
answer it, At Coventry, upon St. Lambert's Day. ll'ich. II, i, 1. •\To lambskin ..."
4. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low (1905)
"Brandin, Is. 6d. net ; limp lambskin, 2s. ßd. net Life of Margaret Godolphin, by
John Evelyn, ... 6d. net ; limp lambskin, 3s. 6d. net Early Lives of Dante, ..."
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