| 单词 | skin trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskin trade skin trade n. originally North American. (a) the trade in animals' skins; (in quot. 1710) the slave trade; (b) slang the pornography industry; cf. skin game n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in skins or furs skin trade1698 peltry trade1722 fur trade1732 fellmongery1759 furring1778 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > pornography > trade in sex work1934 skin trade1969 1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. ii. xxxiii. 132 The..Skin-Trade [Fr. la pelleterie]..must needs produce a very considerable advantage for the Colonies which might be founded in that Countrey. 1710 W. Byrd Secret Diary (1941) 186 About 5 o'clock Robin Hix and Robin Mumford came to discourse about the skin trade. 1772 B. Romans in P. L. Phillips Notes on Life & Wks. B. Romans (1924) 120 Mobile will..become the only Mart, for the Skin Trade from the Chactaw, Chickesaw, and Upper Creek Nations. 1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 101 (heading) Fur and skin trade. 1969 Screw 1 Sept. 7/2 Looked excellent. Looks like a ‘sleeper’ or ‘fucker’ in the vernacular of the skin trade. Great cunt shots. 1994 Pacific Affairs 67 342 Counselling prostitutes to go straight, like taking up factory or service work, after earning easy money from the skin trade can be a futile business. 1999 J. F. Eisenberg & K. H. Redford Mammals of Neotropics III. x. 299/1 F. Geoffroyi is the most important species of spotted cat in the skin trade of the southern cone. < as lemmas |
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