Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or operation of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals, and also of stuffing and mounting the skins so as to give them as close a resemblance to the living forms as possible. See
stuffing , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
art ofstuffing , andmounting theskins ofdead animals forexhibition in alifelike state .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Especially in the manipulation of frail skins and delicate feathers, in bird taxidermy, is this so.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit (For Cindy) | clusterflock 2009
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Of course, as it turns out, the world of taxidermy is a wide, varied, sometimes disturbing place.
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Angela Wilson: I started in taxidermy when I was 16.
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She recalls her taxidermy teacher, George Jamieson, being asked by the family of a deceased Hell's Angel to stretch the tattooed skin from the biker's back over a canvas: "He said the idea of having a man's torso on his desk was just too much so he turned them down."
Polly Morgan's wings of desire Miranda Collinge 2010
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The taxidermists that I respect the most call taxidermy a highly skilled craft.
Politics Jed Lipinski 2010
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The word "taxidermy" jumped out at me at the same time as I looked out the window and saw a sign for a tux shop, so my brain mixed the two and got "tuxidermy."
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Other services, such as taxidermy and safari planning, are also available.
Gray Gaulding, 12-Year-Old Race Car Driver, Sponsored By Gun Web Site (VIDEO) 2010
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Other services, such as taxidermy and safari planning, are also available.
Gray Gaulding, 12-Year-Old Race Car Driver, Sponsored By Gun Web Site (VIDEO) 2010
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When I was in high school I took one of those career-placement tests and it came back with "taxidermy" as my number one career match up.
Thursday Thirteen #6 Teena in Toronto 2007
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"So far I have pretty well eliminated any ideas of a tent or a rug, and I can't see a dwarf flying a black fur flag ... unless, of course, he plans to take up taxidermy, which is an unusual occupa - tion for dwarves as far as I have seen.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
sonofgroucho commented on the word taxidermy
There's a great restaurant in Barcelona called Taxidermista: it's in a former taxidermist's premises.
April 26, 2007