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bearskinn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bear n.1, skin n. Etymology: In α. forms < bear n.1 + skin n. In β. forms < the genitive (singular or plural) of bear n.1 + skin n.Compare Old Icelandic bjarnskinn , bjǫrnskinn , Old Swedish biornskin (Swedish björnskin ), Old Danish biørnskindh (Danish bjørneskind ). Specific forms. Old English berascinn (attested in form bera scin in both manuscripts of the record of Leofric's gifts to Exeter: see quot. OE at sense 1a) perhaps reflects an original genitive compound *beranscinn , with the first element showing a reduced form of the weak genitive singular. Specific senses. In financial use (see sense 3 and Compounds b) originally referring to the speculative selling of stock that the seller does not hold in the expectation of buying it cheaply before delivery is due (and retaining the difference from the selling price as profit), after the proverbial phrase to sell the bearskin before one has caught the bear (and variants: see skin n. Phrases 4b). Compare bear n.1 II. 1. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > skin > skin used as a garment society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of bear OE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Leofric to Exeter Cathedral (Bodl.) in A. J. Robertson (1956) 226 vii oferbrædelsas & ii tæppedu & iii bera scin & vii setlhrægel & iii ricghrægel. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 1735 In þat oþer bere-skyn be-wrapped william þanne. c1415 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Lansd.) (1868) 2142 He had a berskinne cole-blake for olde [c1405 Hengwrt Berys Skyn, c1415 Corpus berskynne]. 1658 G. Starkey 58 He who sold a Bearskin before he had killed the Bear. 1685 in (1924) 357 A pair of gray stockins lyned with beirskin. 1823 Ld. Byron xxvi. 66 In this gay clime of bear-skins black and furry. 1835 J. Ross xli. 547 Natives came..bringing..a bearskin and some clothing. 2013 (Nexis) 12 Aug. 13 When they were wearing bearskins, we were building roads and acqueducts. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > denoting office or profession > military 1843 14 May 3/3 Two statuesque Life Guardsmen in their frowning bearskins, pipe-clayed buckskins, on their coal-black, sleek-fiery quadrupeds. 1854 Dec. 631/2 The plain was again thickly strewn with dead; the tall bear-skins showing where the Guards had fought. 1863 A. W. Kinglake II. 338 The towering bearskins which mark a battalion of the English Guards. 1896 C. Stein in I. 191/1 The tall bearskins of the moving column showed him [sc. Napoleon] that it was his own Guard, which, under Duroc, was moving towards the lakes to the support of Soult and Davoust. 2009 (Nexis) 9 June The Queen..will watch the Trooping ceremony from a dais in Horse Guards and later inspect the lines of guardsmen in their scarlet tunics and bearskins. 1600 M. Sutcliffe New Challenge iv. 83 in Others tel how in England certeine priests or papistes were bayted in beares skinnes.] 1655 J. Goodwin 24 Whereas you say, you depend upon Gods Faithfulnesse, if your sub-meaning be, that I do otherwise..you put me into a Bears-skin, and lay a Bastard of your own begetting at my door. 1678 T. Gale iii. iv. 123 The Pelagian Jesuites oppose the Dominicans in this point under the Bears skin of being Calvinists. 1800 July 352 The venerable name of Calvin is become a bear's skin, in which pious ministers of this church are exposed to contempt, to be reviled and persecuted. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > bought, sold, or dealt on particular terms 1719 D. Defoe 38 They have so many Bear-Skins pawn'd to them at a time, so much Stock deposited with them upon Bottomree, as it might be call'd; that indeed they may be call'd the City Pawn-Brokers. 1726 D. Defoe ii. viii. 320 This buying and selling between the Devil and us, is, I must confess, an odd kind of Stock-jobbing, and indeed the Devil may be said to sell the Bear-skin, whatever he buys. 1748 T. Smollett I. xi. 78 His dress consisted of a frock of what is called bear-skin, the skirts of which were about half a foot long. 1751 in F. Montgomery (1984) 160/2 A Bear-skin Coat, the body lin'd with red Bayes, and the sleeves with ozenbrig, brown Mohair Buttons on it. 1762 in H. M. Brooks 37 Broad cloths, German serges, bearskins, beaver coating, half-thick, red shagg, bays. 2007 F. M. Montgomery (1984) 160/2 Eleven swatches of bearskin, dark brown and black heavy shaggy wools, are enclosed in a packet of letters dated 1804. Compounds 1735 tr. C.-P. J. de Crébillon I. i. i. 19 A Bear-skin Pair of Breeches, adorn'd with Tufts of Hair after the Indian Fashion. 1847 W. M. Thackeray (1848) xxiv. 207 Ensign Spooney..tried on a new bear-skin cap, under which he looked savage beyond his years. 1855 C. Kingsley ii. 205 Wrapt in a bearskin cloak. 1969 G. Baxt (1987) vi. 64 She turned over and lay stomach-flat on a white bearskin rug. 2006 19 June 28/1 The continuing slaughter of Canadian black bears to make bearskin caps for the five regiments of footguards is too high a price to pay for tradition, and in the 21st century with modern synthetic and humane materials readily available, we have a responsibility to do better. 1704 D. Defoe 5 Aug. (1705) 191/1 There was a great Hearing this Sitting, at the Club, between the Corporation of the City Sharpers, the Society of the Bear-Skin Men, and Honest L——yd the Coffee-Man. 1719 D. Defoe 40 Whenever they call in their Money the Stock-Jobbers must sell; the Bear-skin Men must commute, and pay Difference-money. 1726 D. Defoe ii. vi. 279 Every false Friend, every secret Cheat, every Bearskin-Jobber has a Cloven-Foot. 1988 Nov. 192/3 Bearskin jobbers gained notoriety in the bursting of the South Sea Bubble of 1720. 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