peltry
Americannoun
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fur skins; pelts collectively.
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a pelt.
noun
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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In addition to the exportation of furs and peltry to the value of $40,000, the company sent to New England and the West Indies large quantities of pollock, mackerel and codfish taken in the Bay.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)
I cannot admit any of these derivations, though perhaps my own etymon may not be deemed less irrelevant, viz. pellis, the skin of a beast, whence our English terms pell, pelt, peltry, &c.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
For three seasons bale after bale of unsold peltry had been stacked to the rafters of the London warehouse.
From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey
The peltry of the north, no less than the gold and silver of the south, gave impetus to the efforts of those who first settled the western hemisphere.
From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey
They are an enterprising and erratic race from almost every state, and are usually in the employ of persons of capital and enterprise, and who are concerned in the fur and peltry business.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
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