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
- 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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