Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skin of a swan with the feathers attached.
- noun Any of several flannel or cotton fabrics with a soft nap.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skin of a swan with the feathers on.
- noun A kind of fine twilled flannel; also, a kind of woolen blanketing used by letterpress printers and engravers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
- noun A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
skin of aswan with thedown orfeathers on. - noun A type of
brushed flannel cotton twill fabric .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The woman wants to stay in the swanskin, while the man wishes to resume his human form for a time.
August 27th, 2009 douglascohen 2009
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When a spinster on a farm happens to see him remove his swanskin and change back to a man, the lives of these three individuals becomes inextricably linked ...and even more so, when the wizard comes looking for his wife.
August 27th, 2009 douglascohen 2009
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This evening he was still in his white swanskin pantaloons with feet, streaked black on the pocket where he had wiped his pen.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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This evening he was still in his white swanskin pantaloons with feet, streaked black on the pocket where he had wiped his pen.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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This evening he was still in his white swanskin pantaloons with feet, streaked black on the pocket where he had wiped his pen.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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Sometimes, while Grandfather Gardinois, who had laid aside in her honor his old-fashioned hunting-jackets and swanskin waistcoats, was jesting with her, amusing himself by contradicting her in order to draw out a sharp reply, she would gaze steadily, coldly into his eyes, without replying.
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His Majesty, before making his toilet, in summer, put on pantaloons of white pique and a dressing-gown of the same, and in winter, pantaloons and dressing-gown of swanskin, while on his head was a turban tied in front, the two ends hanging down on his neck behind.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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But you must hide the swanskin that belongs to the youngest maiden.
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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Now that she had the swanskin she was able to transform herself.
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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Then he came from where he was hiding and gave her the swanskin.
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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