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dogskin

noun

Definition of dogskin 

1a : the skin of the dog

b : leather from it

2 : leather (as from sheepskins or goatskins) resembling dogskin a pair of dogskin gloves

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First Known Use of dogskin

1508, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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