snakeskin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the skin shed by or removed from a snake, especially leather prepared from snake skin

   The museum displayed a complete snakeskin beside the preserved specimen.

2. 2
   adj

   made from snakeskin or patterned to resemble it

   She carried a vintage snakeskin bag.

A compound of snake + skin, recorded in the nineteenth century. It can denote either a snake's natural or shed skin or leather prepared from it, and it is also used attributively for objects made from or patterned like that material.

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