单词 | peltry trade |
释义 | > as lemmaspeltry trade peltry trade n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in skins or furs skin trade1698 peltry trade1722 fur trade1732 fellmongery1759 furring1778 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Eng. Province Carolana Pref. From these Indians of the Five Nations, the English of New-York, purchase the greatest Part of their Furr and Peltry-Trade. 1893 B. Tuckerman Peter Stuyvesant iii. 140 The peltry-trade alone was never sufficient to meet the wants of the colony. 1990 D. Davie Coll. Poems (new ed.) 239 To propose America dispute the ground The Russians had, from Nootka Sound, And thus imperiously invade The fortune-making peltry trade. < as lemmas |
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