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Meaning of skinne | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of skin.

alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Français skinne

Examples

“Can the Ethiopian change his ſkinne? or the leopard his ſpots?”
“Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.”
“VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]”

CEFR level

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