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moleskin|ˈməʊlskɪn|
[f. mole n.2 + skin.]
1. The skin of the mole used as a fur. Also other skins sheared so as to resemble this.
1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 14 The Impositions now to be set on foot, are upon Bare-neck'd Ladies, Patches, Mole-skins, Spanish Paper, and all the Mundus Muliebris more than what is necessary and decent. 1903Edin. Even. News 17 Apr. 6 There is just now an exceptional demand for moleskins,..due to a report that the King recently had a waistcoat made of moleskins. 1906Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 13/1 The moleskin that is produced by shearing musquash.
2. A strong, soft, fine-piled cotton fustian the surface of which is ‘shaved’ before dyeing.
1803Ann. Reg. 830 A patent, dated June 28th, to Joseph Everett, clothier, for an article..which he denominates Salisbury Angola Moleskin. 1831Lincoln Herald 9 Sept. 3/6 The trowsers are of stout moleskin. 1873Black Adv. Phaeton xviii, The loafer in moleskin stood at some little distance.
3. pl. Outer garments, esp. trousers, made of moleskin (in sense 2).
1836J. Struthers Poet. Wks. (1850) II. 113 Our moleskins are every way as capable as their blouses. 1858Times 20 Nov. 8/5 Our agricultural labourers who wear corduroys, or moleskins. 1893Mrs. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker I. 238 Bushmen in immaculate moleskins and flaring ties.
4. attrib. and Comb., as moleskin breeches, moleskin clothes, moleskin coat, moleskin colour, moleskin trousers; moleskin-breeched, moleskin-coloured adjs.; moleskin shaver, a workman who ‘shaves’ or crops the surface of moleskin; moleskin squatter Austral. and N.Z. (see quot. 1941).
1896Daily News 25 July 8/1 Plodding old labourers, *moleskin-breeched.
1899Quiller-Couch Ship of Stars xii, Taffy went forth to work in *moleskin breeches.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. viii. 146 A suit of strong *moleskin clothes.
1903Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/2 There is *moleskin colour, a term born of the mania for *moleskin coats, which..will result in *moleskin-coloured cloths of many kinds.
1881Instr. Census Clerks 71 Fustian Manufacturer..*Mole-skin Shaver.
1941Baker N.Z. Slang v. 40 Among other terms we have derived from farm life and sheep stations are *moleskin squatter, ‘a working man who has come to own a small sheep run.’ a1948L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) 387 Moleskin squatter... A correspondent writes: ‘The last time I heard it was when the Government cut up Cheviot in 1893... Since then m.ss. have become too numerous to attract attention.’
1873Trollope Harry Heathcote (1874) i. 3 The young man..had on a flannel shirt, a pair of *moleskin trousers, and an old straw hat. 1900H. Lawson On Track 57 The scrub steamed—and stunk like a new pair of moleskin trousers. |