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catskin, cat-skin|ˈkætskɪn|
1. a. The skin of the cat (wild or tame), used for fur, etc. Chiefly attrib.
1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2805/4, 2 Purses, one a Catskin, and the other a colour'd Purse. 1805Scott Let. in Lockhart Life (1839) II. 249 If Mrs. Ellis takes a fancy for cat-skin fur, now is the time. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 228 We want no more wars for cat-skins.
b. catskin earl, each of the three senior earls in the House of Lords, viz. the Earls of Shrewsbury, Derby, and Huntingdon.
1869W. Hook Lives Abps. 2nd Ser. III. iv. 264 The Earl of Huntingdon is one of the three catskin earls of the present day,—one of the first three earls in the House of Lords. 1926G. E. Cokayne Complete Peerage VI. 655 The robes of an Earl consist now of three rows of ermine, but in some early representations an Earl is depicted with four rows... It seems..probable that the four rows..may have given the name of Catskin (or Quatreskin) to the Earl of ancient creation whose robes were thus described.
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†a. Short for a catskin bag (obs.).
b. slang. An inferior kind of silk-hat.
1600Heywood 2 Edw. IV, iii. iii, (Enter Jockie, loden.) Heres her cat-skin till she come. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. v, Tom is arrayed..in a regulation cat-skin at seven-and-sixpence. |