Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A year-old sheep that has been sheared once.
- n. The skin of a shearling or of a newly sheared sheep or lamb, tanned and with the wool on.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sheep of one shear, or that has been once shorn.
Wiktionary
- n. A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
- n. A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sheep but once sheared.
Etymologies
- shear + -ling (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sheepskin, or at least shearling, is all the rage right now.”
“And my Old Navy "shearling" boots carried me through the recent Manhattan snowfests in style.”
“Or type "shearling" into the search box at www.asos.com Dec 23.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Midway through Ralph Lauren's runway show Thursday morning, a model wearing a luxurious black moir é cocoon coat trimmed with shearling, a black sable embroidered evening dress and a black velvet peep-toe sandal with a black lacquer heel stepped on stage and held a pose for a beat or two before walking down the runway.”
“Until this season, when designers seem to have gone sheepskin-mad – or at least shearling-mad, which is sheepskin with the wool trimmed to a uniform length.”
“Jaime Chard Rather than exotic skins, Ms. Kroell made these $395 Dax Gabler pouches from shearling and textured patent leather.”
“Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A mustard patent shearling coat with a waxed leather top and leather/viscose knit pants.”
The Wall Street Journal: Proenza Schouler's Textile Adventure
“Mileage may vary on which scene is better, but you cannot deny that Bateman still looks hot in a shearling denim jacket.”
Top Moments: Late Night's Teen Wolf Do-Over, Bachelorette's Bad Breakup
“PETER STIGTER & JONAS GUSTAVSSON Etro showed a collection that was more somber, but more luxe, than past years, with fur and shearling coats and gilets .”
The Wall Street Journal: Report from Milan: It's Okay to Look Rich
“Steve McQueen Everett Collection Steve McQueen, 1968 The Look : Blue Steel shawl collars, turtlenecks, flat-front khakis, dungarees, shearling coats, windbreakers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shearling’.
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sheep and goats
sheep and more sheep and some
slang for sheep,films that feature sheep ,have you heard of sheeple?
and goatsammon, ancon, argali, bharal, burrel, burrell, burhel, burrhel, bighorn, billy, blackface, broadtail and 144 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
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