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Calf-skin. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Calf-skin Also calf’s-, calves-, calve-. The skin or hide of a calf; a superior kind of leather made from this, and used in bookbinding, shoemaking, etc. More rarely = vellum.

1 1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., IV. iii. 18. Hee that goes in the calues-skin, that was kil’d for the Prodigall. Ibid. (1595), John, III. i. 129. Hang a Calues skin on those recreant limbes!

2 1604.  in Shaks. C. Praise, 60. Master Bursebell the calves-skin scrivener.

3 1704.  Swift, T. Tub, V. 75. Copies, well-bound in calf-skin.

4 1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 74. 990 calve-skins [exported in 1 yr. from Petersburg].

5 1870.  Emerson, Soc. & Solit., Courage, 207. Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin.

6   † b.  A purse, etc., made of calf-skin. Obs.

7 1618.  Dekker, Owles Almanacke, 53. This puts … coyne into the Painters calueskinne.

8   † c.  attrib.

9 1606.  Wily Begvilde, Prol. (N.). His Calue skin iests from hence are cleane exil’d.

10 1785.  Grose, Class. Dict. Vulg. Tongue Calf-skin fiddle, a drum.

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