goatskin
Example Sentences
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“But at the end of the day, there’s going to be a shortage,” he said, noting that the $185 “personal size” edition of the English Standard Version in blue goatskin already has sold out.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
They’re defined by the sharp scrawl of the ghaita, a double-reed instrument, and the resounding pound of the tebel drum, which is made of goatskin and struck with wooden sticks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
Made of goatskin and decorated with silk chain-stitch embroidery by Haight-Ashbury couturier Linda Gravenites, it is Janis Joplin’s exquisite handbag from 1967.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2017
And goatskin is a superior choice for digging in the dirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
He wore a tunic, patched and soiled, and leggings— oxhide patches, bound below his knees against the brambles; gauntlets on his hands and on his head a goatskin cowl of sorrow.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
