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Examples
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He wore a single garment, cleverly pieced together till it seemed one skin, but made of many bird skins, eiderduck, perhaps.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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Here a brown seal bobbed his head out of the water; here a spectacled eiderduck rode up and down on the tiny waves, and here a great mass of tubular seaweed drifted by to remind them that they were really on the bosom of the briny ocean.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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He wore a shirt of eiderduck skins such as was never seen on the Little Diomede, and his outer garments of short-haired deerskin, instead of being composed of parka and trousers were all of one piece.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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