Hudson sealn.
Musk-rat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal fur.
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1920 Eye Opener (Calgary, Alberta) 11 Sept. 1/4 The jackpot is to be the real thing in Hudson seal coats this coming winter.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Oct. 8/5 First Quality Hudson Seal Coat, fancy silk lined; extra large collar and cuffs of Alaska sable.
1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xv. 134 When a muskrat skin has been tanned and the coarse outer hair removed the remaining soft silky undercoat is known to furriers as Hudson seal.
1945 H. MacLennan Two Solitudes (1946) ii. 219 Paul looked out the window and saw..women in black Hudson seal coats with their hands in black muffs, men with fur caps.
Derivatives
Hudson Bay seal n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of musk-rat
muskrat1666
Russia musquash1882
musquash1884
musquash sealskin1902
Hudson Bay seal1914
1914 J. W. Jones Fur-farming in Canada (ed. 2) 7 When the furdressers and dyers produced a clipped and dyed muskrat skin that resembled sealskin almost perfectly, it was found that it would not sell under its own name..[the] high-priced fur is now sold as ‘Hudson Bay seal’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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