peltry
Americannoun
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peltries
plural
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fur skins; pelts collectively.
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a pelt.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of peltry
1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French pelterie, Old French peleterie furrier's wares, equivalent to peleter furrier (derivative of Latin pellis skin; see -er 2) + -ie -y 3
Example Sentences
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The Spanish refused to allow the Americans to navigate the Mississippi, Virginia money entirely lost its credit, hard money was scarce, and peltry was difficult for the military commissaries to obtain.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
But the place was far north of the regions they actually occupied; and English adventurers, with the sanction of the Government, settled there, and opened a trade in peltry with China.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
Joseph St. Marie, of Vincennes, sent his clerk with a load of peltry to be traded to the Indians on the banks of the Mississippi.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
At such times the thrifty hunter who has an eye more to profit and prime peltry than to sport, goes forth armed only with an axe.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
That evening Jessup left for Johnstown on his way to Albany with his peltry; and took with him a letter which I wrote to the Commandant at Johnstown fort.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In order to procure guns and ammunition from their English friends they were compelled to take thought for the decreasing peltries.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
For many years hardy hunters and trappers had penetrated the vast wilderness of the West and Northwest in their hunt for game and peltries.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
I might take a few packages of peltries, but the great bulk must be left behind; yet it seems to me folly to go to Fort Wayne.
From Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution by Major John Richardson
He's reliable enough to go to the mountains every fall and come back every spring with a hoss-back load of peltries, and that's all he is reliable for.
From Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget by Harry Castlemon
The purchase and export of furs and peltries is also extensively carried on by this house.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
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