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hogskin

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
  2. The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.

Examples

“My spiritual backbone stiffened, and I held my head high, looking all men in the eyes. And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat-bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.”
“Other Arabs were filling black hog-skins with water—skins which, well filled, and distended with water till the short legs projected painfully out of the proper line, looked like⟳ the corpses of hogs bloated by drowning.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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