rabbit skin
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3.3
- noun
:
piel de conejo
- The artist used various colors of rabbit skin in her latest craft project.
Examples
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The shop sells handmade items crafted from soft rabbit skin for decorative use.
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Gone to fetch a rabbit skin...
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Next to the rabbit skin is a hand-drawn map.
Fiction book (2001) -
She comes out in a rabbit skin suit, skin tight, but rabbit skin.
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To fetch a rabbit skin to wrap the baby Agnes in...
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Gone a hunting to fetch a... - rabbit skin to wrap his baby Agnes in.
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He looks at the rabbit skin, with its eyeless sockets.
Fiction book (2001) -
He wore a warm coat made from rabbit skin during the chilly winter months.
Synonyms
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4.1
The skin of an animal used to make leather
11
2.0
Soft fur from a small furry animal used to make warm clothes
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2.0
The outer layer of an animal's body that people remove and use for leather or fur
Fur from a rabbit used to make clothes or trim
How Soft
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'rabbit skin' taken compositionally denotes the skin of a rabbit; a B1 learner who knows 'rabbit' and 'skin' would most likely understand it literally rather than as an adhesive. The sense 'rabbit-skin glue' is a specialized, technical use that requires world knowledge or prior exposure, so the meaning is not predictably derived from the parts.
Etymology
Rabbit skin is the simple name for the actual rabbit's skin or pelt, a soft piece of fur and hide that makers use to line clothes or make crafts. So, the phrase refers directly to that animal hide, meaning 'the pelt or hide of a rabbit'.