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noun

Sheepskin n.

The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.

A diploma; so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. (College Cant)

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Etymology of 'Sheepskin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... "stuck up" at seeing both Julia and Fanny acquit themselves so creditably. After the exercises were concluded, he returned with Mr. Miller to Mrs. Crane's. Just before he started for home he drew from his sheepskin pocketbook five hundred dollars, which he divided equally between his daughters, saying, "Here, gals, I reckon this will be enough to pay for all the furbelows you've bought or will want to buy. I'll leave you here the rest ...

— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes

... "Bring hither that sheepskin, Joseph, and lay it down on this bank of dry earth, under this shelving rock. The wind blows chilly from the west, but the rock will shelter us. The sky is fair and the moon is rising, and we can sit here and watch the flocks on the hillside below. ...

— Christmas Stories And Legends • Various

... been seafaring folk, time out of mind. My father's father had tried to keep his own son off the water by giving him a college education and making a doctor of him. But the moment my father was sure of his sheepskin, he had looked about for a chance to go as surgeon on a deep water ship, and had gone voyage ...

— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster

... they were together bending over a great pile of ancient maps. Done on sheepskin and vellum, gray and brown with age, yet with colors as bright as on the day they were drawn, these maps spoke of an age that was gone and of a map-making art that is ...

— Curlie Carson Listens In • Roy J. Snell

... in a table from her own sitting-room to write at. The Judge's desk was untouched, and his heavy wooden arm-chair stood pulled up to it as if he were in it. The ranks of law-books, in their yellow sheepskin, with their red titles above and their black titles below, were in the order he had taught Mrs. Bolton to replace them in after dusting; the stuffed owl on a shelf above the mantel looked down with a clear solemnity ...

— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells

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