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skin dresser

skin dresser noun: a tanner; a furrier.

Noun

skin dresser (plural skin dressers)

  1. (archaic) A 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

Forms of skin dresser

pluralskin dressers

Questions about skin dresser

What does skin dresser mean?
Skin dresser means a tanner; a furrier.
What part of speech is skin dresser?
Skin dresser is a noun.
What is the plural of skin dresser?
The plural of skin dresser is skin dressers.

Words near skin dresser in the dictionary

  1. skin colours
  2. skin cream
  3. skin creams
  4. skin deep
  5. skin diving
  6. skin dresser
  7. skin dressers
  8. skin effect
  9. skin effects
  10. skin fade
  11. skin fades

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