Meanings
plural fishskins
- alternativeAlternative form of fish skin.
His tent was not beautiful and covered with soft skins. It was made of fishskins and full of holes so that wind and snow blew in. Her bed was not made of soft bearskins, but of hard walrus hide.
1991, Joseph Bruchac, Native American Stories, from Keepers of the Earth, Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, →ISBN, page 67
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