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What (who) is SEALSKIN - definition
sealskin
Sealskin is the fur of a seal, used to make coats and other clothing.
...waterproof sealskin boots.
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Sealskin
·add. ·noun The skin of a seal; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, ·esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.
sealskin
¦ noun the skin or prepared fur of a seal, especially when made into a garment.
Examples of use of SEALSKIN
1. "In the summer, they lived in sealskin tents near beaches where they could hunt and fish.
2. "I think I‘ll give myself an extra spray of pheromones," said Cassie Lowe, 41, presiding from behind the counter over shelves of whalebone carvings and sealskin mittens.
3. Inside those modern buildings, the sons and granddaughters of Inuit who lived in snow houses and kept warm in wolf fur and sealskin now sit in shirt sleeves by their furnaces.
4. The girls used to play with a whale fin, dressing it up in sealskin clothes like a doll." When Petersen was 16 he began to hunt, with a spear.
5. "It‘s called a tuiliq," she explains, pronouncing the Greenlandic word "too–lick," "and in Greenland it‘s traditionally made of sealskin." Hers is neoprene, about as warm but more flexible – and a tad less smelly.