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  • noun The skin of a pony.

Etymologies

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pony +‎ skin

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Examples

  • At the Marc Jacobs show, it came as plastic cabochons on a ponyskin sweater and as rubberised dots on taut pencil skirts.

    Coming round to the idea of polka dots 2011

  • I have already mentioned Louis Vuitton, but Alexander McQueen created a similar S&M-style sensation with a pair of ponyskin over-the-knee, lace-up boots £1,540.

    The Must-Have Boots of Fall Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • On the pavement a woman with no pretence to fashion (or else obedient to an ugly fashion) came past, too brightly dressed in a sack overcoat of goatskin; but no, it was not a woman, it was a chauffeur who, enveloped in his ponyskin, was proceeding on foot to his garage.

    The Captive 2003

  • Ben wore a Prada suit rather than a tux that night, and a pair of ponyskin Louis Vuitton shoes.

    Nancy Jo Sales on private-school love Sales, Nancy Jo 2001

  • Ben wore a Prada suit rather than a tux that night, and a pair of ponyskin Louis Vuitton shoes.

    Nancy Jo Sales on private-school love Sales, Nancy Jo 2001

  • Her black-velvet hat, with its dejected white plume drooping rakishly over one of her slanting eyes, her imitation-ponyskin coat with its imitation-ermine collar, her cheap black-serge skirt with its undulations half revealing the daintiness of her surprisingly excellent boots -- all struck the watcher anew with their pitiable striving after the prevailing mode in the dress of Occidental women.

    Undesirables 1915

  • Her rakish hat slipped backward over the imitation-ermine collar of her imitation-ponyskin coat.

    Undesirables 1915

  • For flat-shoes days when a ballet pump just won't do, I'll be opting for these racier ponyskin moccasins.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The Rossellini handbag with black and white graphic effect in multicolored ponyskin with a chocolate leather flaps and black and white enamel decorating the closure is the perfect accessory for any style conscious fashionista.

    Luxurylaunches.com 2010

  • Thus where other readers of my imaginings would be able to pinpoint the genesis of their love of Dries Van Noten or Armani, and speak movingly of their Granny's old ponyskin coat, I could only describe my 'Current Favourite Outfit' as River Island meets New Look meets slightly bonkers jewellery, set off by diamond patterned tights from Sainsburys.

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

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