Definitions

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  • noun The pelt of a otter.

Etymologies

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otter +‎ skin

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Examples

  • I returned to my room, clothed myself warmly — sea boots, an otterskin cap, a great coat of byssus, lined with sealskin; I was ready, I was waiting.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • Maudrayne might have waited for her husband in his bed; but she recalled happier days when they had lain together by the fire in his wide, padded longchair that stood on a hearth-rug of pieced otterskin.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • From one shoulder hung an otterskin, and a great bow was in his hand.

    The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

  • He gathered his otterskin mantle about him and prepared to depart.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • The light shone now upon the feathers in his scalp lock, now upon the triple row of pearls around his neck, now upon knife and tomahawk in his silk grass belt, now on the otterskin mantle hanging from his shoulder and drawn across his knees.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • The larger girdle was my shooting-belt; this was a broad leather belt, on which were fastened four separate compartments, made of otterskin, with flaps to button over, of the same material.

    The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

  • I returned to my room, clothed myself warmly -- sea boots, an otterskin cap, a great coat of byssus, lined with sealskin; I was ready, I was waiting.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

  • I will also give up my otterskin head-dress, if you think that is not enough. "

    Indian Boyhood Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

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