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  • n  the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal
  • n  a garment (as a jacket or coat or robe) made of sealskin

  • All my brothers have gloves of sealskin.
  • Bald, flute-playing Artist Rockwell Kent last week rushed excitedly into the Weyhe Gallery, his Manhattan dealers, with two rolls of scraped sealskin and a story: he had .
  • All my brothers have gloves of sealskin.
Quotes

  • Pierre Berton in The Gazette (Montreal)
    As a proud Canadian who frequently travels abroad, I am alarmed that people are starting to see Canada as a country more beholden to a pack of greedy hunters and to the sealskin 'fashion' whims of a few countries than to the massive international... Pamela Anderson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Anderson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEAGcNTD56ueleiz7vEJa1MgB4rMQ USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2006-03-29-anderson-seals_x.htm%3FPOE%3DLIFISVA&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHj_pgqJ99xhR53c3ODkdudzF06yQ Mar 29, 2006 87141 116533 sealskin Cold they certainly were, even in their superior sealskin, but they were hardened to cold and knew how to prepare for it," Berton writes.
  • Paul Okalik in Edmonton Sun
    The species that we harvest is the ring seal, and it's primarily adult ring seals,said Okalik. "It's not those fluffy, cute things that you see on TV all the time, that these (conservation) groups use to try and kill the sealskin market."

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