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skinnery

[ skin-uh-ree ]

noun

plural skinneries.
  1. a place where skins are prepared, as for the market.


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of skinnery1

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; skin, -ery
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Example Sentences

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To oppress one's own workmen, and provide for the workmen of a neighbor—to skin those in charge of one's own interests, while cottoning and oiling the residuary product of another's skinnery—that is not very good benevolence, nor very good sense, but it serves in place of both.

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Look after your Drapery and Skinnery.

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To oppress one's own workmen, and provide for the workmen of a neighbor—to skin those in charge of one's own interests while cottoning and oiling the residuary product of another's skinnery—that is not very good benevolence, nor very good sense, but it serves in place of both.

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The Skinnery of the new Start-ups extracted out of the fallow-butt, incornifistibulated and plodded upon in the angelic sum.

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