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- noun The
skin of anelk , orleather made therefrom.
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Examples
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She was tall and slender, wearing an elkskin dress, the sleeves open and hanging, no beads or quills or ornamentation of any kind, fringed at the bottom where it came to just below her knees.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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She was wearing a worn and greasy two-piece garment, skirt and cape of elkskin hide ornamented with porcupine quills, many of which had fallen loose.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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She was tall and slender, wearing an elkskin dress, the sleeves open and hanging, no beads or quills or ornamentation of any kind, fringed at the bottom where it came to just below her knees.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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She was wearing a worn and greasy two-piece garment, skirt and cape of elkskin hide ornamented with porcupine quills, many of which had fallen loose.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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She was tall and slender, wearing an elkskin dress, the sleeves open and hanging, no beads or quills or ornamentation of any kind, fringed at the bottom where it came to just below her knees.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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She was wearing a worn and greasy two-piece garment, skirt and cape of elkskin hide ornamented with porcupine quills, many of which had fallen loose.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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"Never tried before you acquired those _beautiful_ gray elkskin boots with the _ravishing_ hobnails in 'em," chaffed Bob.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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She was beautifully dressed for the part in a marvelous, becoming costume of whipcord -- short skirt, high laced elkskin boots and the rest of it; but in all her magnificence she had sat down on the ground, her back to the cliff, her legs across the trail, and was so tired out that she could hardly muster interest enough to pull them in out of the way of our horses 'hoofs.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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Its graceful head protruded from the elkskin robe just over Snana's shoulder.
Old Indian Days 1907
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She was beautifully dressed for the part in a marvelous, becoming costume of whipcord -- short skirt, high laced elkskin boots and the rest of it; but in all her magnificence she had sat down on the ground, her back to the cliff, her legs across the trail, and was so tired out that she could hardly muster interest enough to pull them in out of the way of our horses 'hoofs.
The Mountains 1904
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