Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The hide of a lamb, especially when dressed without removing the fleece, as for a garment.
  • noun Leather made from the dressed hide of a lamb.
  • noun Parchment made from such hide.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To beat.
  • noun The furred or woolly skin of a lamb, either of natural color or dyed, prepared for use in dress or in the ornamenting of costume, for mats, etc; also, collectively, material so prepared from lambs' skins.
  • noun The skin of a lamb, or collectively the skins of lambs, freed from wool and dressed for making gloves, etc.
  • noun Woolen cloth made to resemble lambskin.
  • noun Anthracite coal of inferior quality (culm).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.
  • noun A kind of woolen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. This is a very fine form of leather.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the skin of a lamb with the wool still on
  • noun skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

from lamb + skin

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Examples

  • Between the fourth and sixth century BC, they used to put milk in lambskin bags, which they carried about on their waists.

    Want to live 100 years? Eat Bulgarian yoghurt 2005

  • Between the fourth and sixth century BC, they used to put milk in lambskin bags, which they carried about on their waists.

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • Between the fourth and sixth century BC, they used to put milk in lambskin bags, which they carried about on their waists.

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • Ms. Held, whose label is sold in high-end stores like Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, seeks out pliant materials such as lambskin or washed cottons.

    Summer's in the Bag 2010

  • These days, softer leathers such as lambskin and goatskin are popular alternatives to old-fashioned leathers such as cowhide and horsehide.

    The Answer: Looking Good in Leather Jason Chow 2010

  • This season's creative director Francesco Russo uses materials such as lambskin, lizard-embroidered goatskin metallic calfskin, eel skin that overlaps and conveys his 'dream' of mermaids, birds and shadows into his design of the new collections.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • Many went native, adopting Caucasian dress—the burka (a sleeveless felt cloak), and papakha (lambskin hat)—seducing mountain women, learning local languages, entering into blood pacts with the mountaineers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Many went native, adopting Caucasian dress—the burka (a sleeveless felt cloak), and papakha (lambskin hat)—seducing mountain women, learning local languages, entering into blood pacts with the mountaineers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Many went native, adopting Caucasian dress—the burka (a sleeveless felt cloak), and papakha (lambskin hat)—seducing mountain women, learning local languages, entering into blood pacts with the mountaineers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Many went native, adopting Caucasian dress—the burka (a sleeveless felt cloak), and papakha (lambskin hat)—seducing mountain women, learning local languages, entering into blood pacts with the mountaineers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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