yakskin

plural yakskins · alternative yak-skin · alternative yak skin

1. countableuncountableThe pelt or hide of a yak; leather made from yak hides.

   Down on the banks men were offering ferry rides to the far side in coracles made of yakskin.

   1996, Simon Winchester, chapter 14, in The River at the Center of the World, New York: Picador, page 379

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   […] there was greater ease in avoiding a scene since wine and fruit were now on offer, having been unpacked by the marching party, stocky Tibetans in sheepskins, fur hats, and yakskin boots.

   1933, James Hilton, chapter 3, in Lost Horizon, New York: Pocket Books, published 1939, page 59

   We accepted the invitation to stay at the home of the shaman’s parents, sleeping under yak skins on the second floor with the rest of the family […]

   2010, David Abrams, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, New York: Vintage, published 2011, pages 202–203