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snakeskin Definition

snake·skin (-skin′)

noun

a snake's skin or leather from it

snakeskin Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • touch: Thus being bit by a rattlesnake is what you get for touching a snakeskin.

Adjective modifier

  • blue: In addition to the warm red and blue colour-changing LEDs upstairs, the 8th floor walls are clad in blue snakeskin.
  • red: Be a good girl, and go on and get me the red snakeskin.

Modifies a noun

  • boot: Perseus's costume is based on a contemporary stereotypical hero, who also wears some striking snakeskin boots.
  • jacket: One such piece in the exhibition is the snakeskin rocker jacket by designer Ossie Clarke.

Noun used with modifier

  • pair: Breeding pair snakeskin Discus this is a proven pair not a matched pair or a.. .
snakeskin Quotes

   I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

—Bene¤  t, StephenVincent