peltry

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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

Brashears had departed for New Orleans without settling the account for the peltry which Todd had committed to the joint care of Montgomery and Winston.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton

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

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 Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

I'd as lief be descended from a canvased ham as an Astor peltry or a Vanderbilt steamboat.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith