skin dresser

noun

A tanner; a furrier.

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Meanings

nounskin dresser (plural skin dressers)

plural skin dressers

  1. archaicA tanner; a furrier.

    “It was all perfectly accidental, arising from my informant striking an acquaintance with an intelligent skin-dresser lodging in that particular slum-house.”

    1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, Penguin Classics, published 2007, page 229
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APA

skin dresser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skin%20dresser

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“skin dresser.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skin%20dresser. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skin dresser,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skin%20dresser.

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