Etymology: < Anglo-Norman peletrie, pelletrie, peltrie and Middle French peleterie, pelleterie furs collectively (end of the 12th cent. in Old French; c1165 in Old French as peleterie in sense ‘art of preparing furs and skins’; French pelleterie ) < pelet- (in Anglo-Norman and Old French peletier , pelletier pelleter n.¹) + -erie -ery suffix. Compare post-classical Latin pelletria skins collectively (from mid 13th cent. in British sources; also as pelletaria, pelleteria), trade in animal skins (c1324 in a British source), Spanish peletería furs collectively (1295 or earlier as †pellateria), Italian pelletteria furs collectively, also objects made from them (1577 as †pellettaria), trade in animal skins (1598 or earlier in Florio as †pelletaria, †pellettaria; < French), Old Occitan peliteria (1479), pelataria (1482), and also Middle Dutch pelterye (Dutch pelterij), Middle Low German pelterīe, peltrīe furs collectively, also objects made from them. In later use (since 17th cent.) reinforced by French pelleterie, apparently through the fur trade in North America.The origin of the form pelter (compare quot. a1500² at sense 1a) is uncertain.

Etymology: Origin uncertain: see paltry adj. and discussion at that entry.

Etymology: Origin uncertain: see paltry adj. and discussion at that entry. Compare earlier peltry n.² Sc. National Dict. records the word as still in use in Banffshire in 1965.