Definitions
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- noun the
skin of agoose , especially the removable skin of a the goose form of anarnauk who transforms back into a goose by putting the skin back on
Etymologies
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goose + skin
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Examples
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He was a man of medium height, lean and bald, with a face like a good-natured bourgeois, not interesting, but pale and presentable, with a stiff, well-kept moustache, with a neck like gooseskin, and a big Adam's apple.
The Darling and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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