sealskin n
1 1987 Evening Telegram 5 Jan, p. 3 The European Economic Community [imposed] a ban on the importation of seal skin products in 1983.
2 Attrib ~ cap, ~ boot, ~ house: structure for the storage and processing of the skin of hair seals.
[1839] 1871 JUKES 58 What would you think of me in a check shirt, sealskin cap, and Indian boots coming up to my knee...pacing the deck, a sea-geologist! 1977 LAMB 89 Where else [but Water Street] could you select a pair of Eskimo-made sealskin boots out of an odoriferous barrel?
