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swanskin

[ swon-skin ]

noun

  1. the skin of a swan, with the feathers on.
  2. a closely woven twill-weave flannel for work clothes.


swanskin

/ ˈswɒnˌskɪn /

noun

  1. the skin of a swan with the feathers attached
  2. a fine twill-weave flannel fabric
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of swanskin1

First recorded in 1600–10; swan 1 + skin
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Example Sentences

“Did you, um, do something with her swanskin?”

And inside that cage was a small bird, like none Hazel had ever seen, as gleaming white as the feathers of the swanskin.

There was a swanskin, and you thought it might make you beautiful.

During the reign of Louis XV. carved Indian and China fans displaced to some extent those formerly imported from Italy, which had been painted on swanskin parchment prepared with various perfumes.

Among them were seven intricately painted swanskin fans that Kokoschka decorated for her between 1912 and 1914, partly as gifts and partly because he had chosen the illumination of fans as a special project for Vienna's famous arts and crafts school, the Wiener Werkstatte, where he worked as an apprentice and later as a teacher.

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