单词 | red hide |
释义 | > as lemmasred hide red hide n. [apparently after Old Russian krasnaja koža high-quality leather, lit. ‘red leather’ (second half of the 16th cent.)] now historical a kind of skin or leather produced esp. in Russia. ΚΠ 1558 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (1599) I. 326 The chiefest commodities that the Russes bring thither are redde hides, redde sheepes skinnes,..with corne, bacon, and other victuals. 1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 83 The English export chiefly hemp..red-hides and caviar; the two last to Leghorne. 1791 J. Payne Universal Geogr. II. 41/2 The exports by the English from Russia are..wax, tar, red hides, iron, and caviar. 1931 F. R. Dulles Eastward Ho! ii. v. 48 Indians from Bengal brought to Bokhara cambrics and muslins to exchange for the red hides of Russia. 1999 R. Hellie Econ. & Material Culture Russia 278 Red hide and red Russia leather are curious commodities. One gets the strong suspicion..that these were made from members of the bovine family. < as lemmas |
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