furriery
English
Noun
furriery (countable and uncountable, plural furrieries)
- Furs in general.
- 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century
- For smaller furrieries and edgings, the skins of the MARTEN, the SQUIRREL, the ERMINE, the RABBIT and the MARMOTTE are the choicest
- 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century
- The business of a furrier; trade in furs.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for furriery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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