fishskin

How to use fishskin in a sentence

• Others carried water and made mortar, which they thickened by a pulp made of paper, and a glue made by boiling fish skin.

  Japanese Fairy World | William Elliot Griffis

• A bit of fish-skin as big as a ninepence, thrown into coffee while it is boiling, tends to make it clear.

  The American Frugal Housewife | Lydia M. Child

• Several other varieties of fish skin are employed in the arts.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• If it has a window, you cannot see through it, for it is a piece of fish skin that looks like dirty glass.

  The Silent Readers | William D. Lewis

• There are usually two windows, made of fish skin or thin paper over lattices.

  Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace Knox