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Lambskin

noun
1.
The skin of a lamb with the wool still on.
2.
Skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on.  Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin.






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"Lambskin" Quotes from Famous Books



... friend, Robert, the Bishop of Hereford, a learned man, understanding all the science of the time, a judge, and a courtly Lorrainer, yet who loved to spend whole days with the unlettered Saxon, came to lay him in his grave. He received, as a gift from the convent, the lambskin cloak that Wulstan used to wear, in spite of the laughter of the gay prelates arrayed in costly furs, keeping his ground by saying, that "the furs of cunning animals did not befit a plain man." He went home to Hereford, and soon after died, having, it is said, been warned in a vision ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge



Words linked to "Lambskin" :   animal skin, fur, Persian lamb, pelt, vellum, broadtail



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