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peltry

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛltɹi/Sorted elprtyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Animal skins with the fur still attached.

Word origin

From Old French peleterie, the trade of a skinner or peltmonger (peletier). Equivalent to pelt + -ry.

Used in a sentence

  • It has gray hair, and the fleece is sometimes sold with other peltries, but it is not worth much, although it has some odor.
  • We met with a party of three hunters from the Sioux river; they had been out for twelve months, and collected about nine hundred dollars worth of peltries and furs.
  • Selling his glittering goods at a great advance, he received in exchange valuable peltries and furs at a corresponding reduction.

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