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  • noun Alternative spelling of deerskin.

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Examples

  • A town was a cluster of deer-skin lodges; a trading-post a seat of civilization; and a factor God Almighty Himself.

    CHAPTER 5 2010

  • Thou, Gowhee, hast a wife and children and a deer-skin lodge in the Chippewyan.

    THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL 2010

  • He had a jerkin of gray cloth slashed and trimmed, with black hose of the same, with deer-skin rullions or sandals, and handsome silver spurs.

    The Monastery 2008

  • But look thou! thou art a handy wench; take the deer-skin that hangs up yonder and make thee brogues for thy feet, if so thou wilt.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Even so did Birdalone, and shaped the skin to her feet; but as she was sewing them a fancy came into her head; for she had just come across some threads of silk of divers colours; so she took them and her shoon and her needle up into the wood, and there sat down happily under a great spreading oak which much she haunted, and fell to broidering the kindly deer-skin.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Hast thou spoilt the good deer-skin and art yet but shoeless?

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • It's cut from the same general cloth as Don Coscarelli's "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" -- i.e., "There's a killer on the road / his brain is squirmin' like a toad" -- but what it makes out of that cloth is closer to an Armani suit than a deer-skin coat.

    Archive 2006-01-22 2006

  • It's cut from the same general cloth as Don Coscarelli's "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" -- i.e., "There's a killer on the road / his brain is squirmin' like a toad" -- but what it makes out of that cloth is closer to an Armani suit than a deer-skin coat.

    I Saw The Horrible THING... and Survived! 2006

  • "All right," he said, and went and got the deer-skin, that was the finest of the skins they had.

    2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

  • Here Sampson Gundry turned full upon me, and folded his arms, and spread his great chin upon his deer-skin apron, and nodded briskly with his deep gray eyes, surveying me in triumph.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

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