sheepskin

IPA: ʃˈipskɪn

noun

  • (uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.
  • (US, countable) A diploma.
  • (countable or uncountable) The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.
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Examples of "sheepskin" in Sentences

  • These were also printed on sheepskin.
  • In the past, sheepskin was widely used.
  • In ancient times, was made of sheepskin.
  • The boots are made with twin face sheepskin.
  • Please do not redirect sheepskin boots to ugg.
  • Sheep are reared mostly for wool and sheepskin.
  • French morocco is an imitation made of sheepskin.
  • This is treated animal skin, typically sheepskin.
  • Sheepskin is the hide of a sheep, sometimes also called lambskin.
  • If they are not, then the sheepskin boots redirect will need to be eliminated.
  • January, muffled in sheepskin coat and cap, receives his bags, and goes forth alone on his terrible journey of nearly
  • Even in summer the sun is none too hot on this hill-top; and a sheepskin is a garment one must be used to, it appears.
  • The three guides were dressed in sheepskin, and had extra pulu gowns for use in storms to protect themselves from rain and hail.
  • In order to get your diploma, one of the things you have to suffer through in order to get the sheepskin is the graduation speech.
  • It comes from the sheepskin, which is worked in, slept in, and, what is more, often inherited from a parent who had also worn it as his winter hide.
  • Although this factory was known as the sheepskin tannery they soon found that the skins of lambs, kids, and goats were also tanned and finished there.
  • What both design styles have in common is a cold heritage and, as a result, a love of warm materials like sheepskin, which is now appearing as upholstery.
  • It is a spirit which caused people to come to Canada from every comer of the globe -- the English, the French, the men in sheepskin coats, the boat people.
  • Brad DeLong raises an important puzzle: One would have thought that the rise in the value of a sheepskin from a 30% lifetime wage premium over a high-school diploma in 1975 to a 90% premium in 2005 would have called ...
  • One would have thought that the rise in the value of a sheepskin from a 30% lifetime wage premium over a high-school diploma in 1975 to a 90% premium in 2005 would have called forth an extraordinary wave of public support and public funding for investment in education that would have pushed that premium down somewhat: lots more Americans should be getting a higher education now than were getting one in the mid-1970s.

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