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  • noun Plural form of wolfskin.

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Examples

  • Across the foot of the bed, an extra coverlet, hung a gray robe of wolfskins with every tail a-dangle.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • He had never before appreciated a plain hardwood floor with a couple of wolfskins; it sure beat all the carpets in creation.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • I saw men in wolfskins, wild and shock-headed, wielding dripping axes, and tall men in horned helmets and glittering mail, whose eyes were cold and blue as the sea.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • They were barefoot and clad scantily in wolfskins.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • But Acheron had fallen, and the barbaric ancestors of the Hyborians had swept southward in wolfskins and horned helmets, driving the ancient rulers of the land before them.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • But in the reign of Thugra Khotan, the last magician of Kuthchemes, gray-eyed, tawny-haired barbarians in wolfskins and scale-mail had ridden from the north into the rich uplands to carve out the kingdom of Koth with their iron swords.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • But in the reign of Thugra Khotan, the last magician of Kuthchemes, gray-eyed, tawny-haired barbarians in wolfskins and scale-mail had ridden from the north into the rich uplands to carve out the kingdom of Koth with their iron swords.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • But Acheron had fallen, and the barbaric ancestors of the Hyborians had swept southward in wolfskins and horned helmets, driving the ancient rulers of the land before them.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • But in the reign of Thugra Khotan, the last magician of Kuthchemes, gray-eyed, tawny-haired barbarians in wolfskins and scale-mail had ridden from the north into the rich uplands to carve out the kingdom of Koth with their iron swords.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • But Acheron had fallen, and the barbaric ancestors of the Hyborians had swept southward in wolfskins and horned helmets, driving the ancient rulers of the land before them.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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