noun
Etymology
Origin of cowskin
Example Sentences
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Gaucho-inspired touches like cowskin rugs and old-fashioned wooden wardrobes are complemented by a small pool and chic public spaces.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2020
The other half of Paradiso's artwork was a mucca finta, a fake cow, a four-wheeled chassis draped in a cowskin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wood floors are covered with chic cowskin rugs and a wood-framed bed is piled with sheepskins, a thick duvet and down pillows.
From Time Magazine Archive
They'll raise tobacco, corn, and rye, And drive, and thieve, and cheat, and lie, And lay up treasures in the sky, By making switch and cowskin fly, In hope of heavenly union.
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick
In summer a lighter robe was worn, made of cowskin or buckskin, from which the hair had been removed.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by Grinnell, George Bird
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