fishskin
Americannoun
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a condom.
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a dollar bill.
Etymology
Origin of fishskin
Example Sentences
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In the 1930s and '40s, metal and leather, the staples of shoemaking, were scarce in wartime Italy, so he experimented with what came to hand -- straw, raffia, bark, even fishskin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In summer their clothing is of sealskin and fishskin; and in winter it is of the thicker reindeer hides.
From A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by George Carlson
If you had worn a boy's coat, or a fishskin, always, I had sense enough to see that it was a saint at play.
From The Mermaid A Love Tale by Lily Dougall
There was a girdle round her loins made of dried puff-balls strung together, and a fishskin pouch hung from that, in which were the charms she used in her prophesying.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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