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skin-coat
Also 6 skyn coit, skincote, -coate.
[f. skin n. + coat n.]
1. A coat made of skin.
1533Acc. Lord High Treas. Scotl. VI. 181 To begary the samyne doublet, and to begary ane skyn coit, v ½ quarteris veluot. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 76 Am not I a Gentleman, though tirde in a shepheardes skincote.
†2. transf. A person's skin. Obs.
1589Hay any work (1844) 9, I will lay on load on your skincoat for this geare anon. a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. Proh., Ay engraued the memory of Boughon on the skin⁓coate of some of them. 1611Cotgr., Escailler,..to beat, bethwacke, belabor the skin-coat of. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xvii, I will have their skin-coat shaken once yet before they die. |