calf-skinn.

Forms: Also calf's-, calves-, calve-.

a. The skin or hide of a calf; a superior kind of leather made from this, and used in bookbinding, shoemaking, etc. More rarely = vellum n. 1.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > calf-skin

veal-skin1591

calf-skin1604

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum

calf-skin1604

skin of vellum1679–88

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from calf-skin

calf-skin1704

calf1716

calf-leather1726

box calf1893

ooze calf1894

veal calf1895

1604 in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 60 Master Bursebell the calves-skin scrivener.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 55 Hang a Calues skin on those recreant limbes!

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iii. 18 Hee that goes in the calues-skin, that was kil'd for the Prodigall.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 115 Copies, well bound in Calf's Skin.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 74 990 calve-skins [exported in 1 yr. from Petersburg].

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 232 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin.

†b. A purse, etc., made of calf-skin. Obsolete.

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1618 Owles Almanacke 56 This puts..coyne into the Painters calueskinne.

†c. attributive.

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1606 Wily Beguilde Prol. 2 His Calue skin iests from hence are cleane exil'd.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Calf-skin fiddle, a drum.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	calf-skin
释义	calf-skinn. Forms: Also calf's-, calves-, calve-. a. The skin or hide of a calf; a superior kind of leather made from this, and used in bookbinding, shoemaking, etc. More rarely = vellum n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > calf-skin veal-skin1591 calf-skin1604 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum calf-skin1604 skin of vellum1679–88 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from calf-skin calf-skin1704 calf1716 calf-leather1726 box calf1893 ooze calf1894 veal calf1895 1604 in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 60 Master Bursebell the calves-skin scrivener. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 55 Hang a Calues skin on those recreant limbes! a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iii. 18 Hee that goes in the calues-skin, that was kil'd for the Prodigall. View more context for this quotation 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 115 Copies, well bound in Calf's Skin. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 74 990 calve-skins [exported in 1 yr. from Petersburg]. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 232 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin. †b. A purse, etc., made of calf-skin. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1618 Owles Almanacke 56 This puts..coyne into the Painters calueskinne. †c. attributive. ΚΠ 1606 Wily Beguilde Prol. 2 His Calue skin iests from hence are cleane exil'd. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Calf-skin fiddle, a drum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1604
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