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from The Century Dictionary.
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skin .
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Examples
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The bombers have been portrayed as so-called clean-skins - people with no history of extremism, people the intelligence services could not be expected to stop.
Some background reading... Rachel 2007
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All the cattle running in the mountain gullies and on the spurs, had been brought in, the calves and "clean-skins" branded, and now there remained only those which roamed about the coast lands.
Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884
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"There are any amount of wild cattle running in the ranges -- all clean-skins" (unbranded), "and no one claims them.
The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884
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