Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Soft leather made from sheepskin, used especially for gloves.
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- noun A soft
sheepskin leather especially used forgloves .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Cape of Good Hope (from the fact that it is traditionally made from the skins of South African sheep).]
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Examples
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She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true, and his lithe Parisian daughter of joy, beneath the eternal mirror, forswearing perfumes, capeskin to the armpits, all that is too easy, for his impoverishment and more worthy love.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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