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  • noun Plural form of moleskin.

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Examples

  • After months of searching for a name and countless moleskins filled with ideas, those two words together seemed right, so we went with it.

    John Gascot: Black Eskimo: Something New John Gascot 2011

  • After months of searching for a name and countless moleskins filled with ideas, those two words together seemed right, so we went with it.

    John Gascot: Black Eskimo: Something New John Gascot 2011

  • Ash-Leigh did up the last button of his moleskins and watched, transfixed.

    Off the Wall Peter Ashley 2008

  • Some were peaty black, like dried moleskins; others had a more southern Somerset ruddiness, a color that to me always seems old, like cheese rind or the face of a red deer.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • I also like a knock off of moleskins that has thicker water color paper for inking or watercolor quick sketch.

    Sketchbook Shelf James Gurney 2009

  • Look at all of the examples of what people are doing on their moleskins. via Graphic-Exchange

    Engrave Your Book + Tech 2008

  • Look at all of the examples of what people are doing on their moleskins. via Graphic-Exchange

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • My strong moleskins were quite worn through at the knees, and the leather trowsers of my companion were torn and his legs bleeding.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • A stockrider, when he would appear in a gay shirt, tight white moleskins, cabbage-tree hat, flash riding-boots with glittering spurs.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • However, unlike most stockmen he preferred a white shirt and white moleskins to grey flannel and grey twill; somewhat of a dandy, she decided, amused.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

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