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CALFSKIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calfskin mean?
• CALFSKIN (noun)
The noun CALFSKIN has 1 sense:
1. fine leather from the skin of a calf
Familiarity information: CALFSKIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fine leather from the skin of a calf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
calf; calfskin
Hypernyms ("calfskin" is a kind of...):
leather (an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calfskin"):
box calf (black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts)
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