Definition
lambskins
noun
- the skins of lambs, especially when prepared as leather or used with the wool still attached
Examples
- The craftsman used fine lambskins to make luxury gloves.
- Traditional parchment was often made from lambskins.
- The coat was lined with soft lambskins for warmth.
- Medieval scribes wrote on lambskins prepared as vellum.
- The bookbinder preferred lambskins for covering rare volumes.
- Lambskins were traded as valuable commodities in ancient markets.