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/pˈɪgskˌɪn/ Listen

Pigskin

noun

Leather from the skin of swine.

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"Pigskin" Quotes from Famous Books

... have pictures of the coaches. They usually resemble market wagons with round, canvas-covered tops, and the driver is seated outside the body of the wagon with his feet on the foot-board. Trunks were small, covered with deerskin or pigskin, studded with brass nails; and each traveller took his trunk under his seat ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

... said Ritter gaily, at the same time bringing an album bound in pigskin, in which he asked Frederick and Schmidt to write their names. Then he opened a very practical closet reaching to the floor, one of Willy's contrivances, and took out a carved wooden figure, a German Madonna by Till Riemenschneider. The sweet oval of her lovely face was not so much that of a Madonna ...

— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

... looking from trap to trap; then turned and surveyed again the impassable walls, the rows of works, few of which were European, some of them bound in vellum, some in pigskin, and one row of huge volumes, ten in number, on the bottom shelf, ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

Words linked to "Pigskin" : leather