Crossword clues for lambskin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lambskin \Lamb"skin`\, n.
The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.
A kind of woolen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. This is a very fine form of leather.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Lambskin may refer to:
- Lambskin (sheepskin), the skin of a young sheep
- Lambskin condom, made from natural lamb intestines
Usage examples of "lambskin".
He knew she was going to Olympe for advice-the smell of the vinegar she used was a sharp, lingering fragrance in the luminous darkness-but he also knew that pessary sponges, and lambskins, and the annoyance of coitus interruptus all failed as often as they succeeded.
Its bhederin-hide binding was stained and scarred, the lambskin pages within smelling of lanolin and bloodberry ink.
His lambskin papakha showed an imprint where an oval tzarist cockade used to be.
Lambskin trimmed the lower part of his hat, but the woolen top was folded to one side where it was fastened with a bejeweled clasp.
This morning, his color scheme was off-white, from the cream-colored taband binding his damp hair back, down through a wan sieved pigskin tunic, down to heavy silk trousers gathered tightly at waist and bloused at the ankles over lambskin boots.
Even bundled in her gray lambskin coat, with a wool shawl tied over her head and ears, she was chilled.
He wore black silk corduroy slacks, tan lambskin kilties with argyle socks.
Their leather cloaks were poor cover for a storm, and such lambskins that had been hastily purchased in Ille Glaive were wet and stinking.
The dining room was given a complete going over, walls and ceiling as well as floors, evicting generations of spiders from behind the cornices while the huge table was brought to a silken polish by two newly hired young footmen who flung themselves back and forth along it on lambskins, much to the amusement of the equally new housemaids.
When the light faded and he could no longer work with the sick, he joined Nefer and his commanders as they pored over the maps drawn on tanned lambskins, planning and scheming by the light of the oil lamps.
Hard to see in the poor light, but it's like a wolf tossing off a lambskin.
Gwaay, his face easy-smiling in repose, seemed to be less interested in the game than in the shadow play of the flickering lamps on the figured leather upholsterings of calfskin, lambskin, snakeskin, and even slave-skin and nobler human hide.