catskin

So re the volva, perhaps the important thing was it being a WHITE catskin?

The Witch’s Cat Carla 2007

Malcolm Jones mentions catskin as being a very low-status fur sold only by the lowest sort of pedlar.

The Witch’s Cat Carla 2007

Elizabeth - oh, forgot to mention that Malcolm Jones mentions a Dutch illustration of a humble pedlar carrying a tabby catskin, so perhaps tabby cats were only high-status when alive!

The Witch’s Cat Carla 2007

In a desperate last throw of the dice, Baldrick is sent to the House of Lords and Blackadder is left with nothing but a catskin windcheater and a broken turnip.

Archive 2007-04-15 2007

White cats don't seem to be very common, as far as I've noticed, so perhaps white catskin had a rarity value.

The Witch’s Cat Carla 2007

The fur-lined collar of his catskin jacket was pulled up around his face; his eyes gazed into some abyss only he could see.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Now he wore a catskin serape over his patched URS parka, a carbine slung on its strap from his shoulder.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Out in front of the grange hall, vendors and craftspeople were setting up tents; the early arrivals had already put out their wares upon benches and tables: handmade clothing, catskin boots and gloves, cookware and cutlery, labor-saving devices for the frontier home both complex and simple, hand-carved children's toys.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Carlos left Chris with the cleanup; while he was scrubbing the plates and pan with water he boiled on the stove, Carlos walked over to the tent and produced a small catskin flask from one of the saddlebags.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The three men standing carried rifles, but they were still hanging by their shoulder straps; the two kneeling on the ground, he noticed, weren't wearing Union parkas, but instead catskin jackets.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004