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Definition of Fishskins
1. fishskin [n] - See also: fishskin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishskins
Literary usage of Fishskins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. T'oung pao by Demiéville, Paul, Henri Cordier, Gustaaf Schlegel, Edouard Chavannes, Paul Pelliot, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak (1891)
"The latter is made especially of sealskins, fishskins or the skins of other animals.
Cotton clothes are obtained by barter. ..."
2. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land by Stephen Olin (1843)
"Their dress is equally illustrative of the Sacred Volume: their sandals, which
are merely bits of leather or untanned skins, commonly fishskins, ..."
3. Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company (1902)
"The commodities which that country doth afford is fishskins, flax, silk, and
other commodities, ..."
4. Compilation of Treaties in Force: Prepared Under Resolution of the Senate by United States, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations (1904)
"137 Maws do 4.250 Salt do 160 Stock do 315 fishskins do 600 Flints do 040 Flour.
See Cereals. Flour, arrowroot, potato, sago, tapioca, ..."
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