noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. A very fine form of leather. countable, uncountable

   "Near-synonym: sheepskin"

2. 2
   skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on wordnet
3. 3
   A kind of woollen cloth resembling this. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   the skin of a lamb with the wool still on wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

sheepskinparchmentparchment

Etymology

From lamb + skin.

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