(n.) Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.
Example Sentences:
(1) You need a little moleskine, to write rude ideas... Mel No, I’ve just started recycling them.
(2) The method of choice, microfoam tape, moleskin, or Velcro, depends on the patient's ability to manage the material.
(3) They have the same faces and a lot of moleskin fur – not exactly first class, in other words, but still chic – with arrogant legs and a great waft of perfume about them.” Keun was too much for the Nazis; she fled to Ostend where she took Joseph Roth for her lover.
(4) Malcolm Fraser, an early adopter of this look, did it best: moleskin pants, chambray shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbows, brown leather belt and RM Williams boots.
(5) The gait patterns were recorded on white paper by a method which involved the application of moleskin and ink to the soles of the subjects' shoes.
(6) Just how much stripped pine, Moleskine journals and Boden skirts can the average Chinese peasant afford?
Sheepskin
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
(n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) His dad runs a financial trading company and his mum has a business selling leather coats and sheepskin products.
(2) The high mean number in sheepskins is the result of massively high populations in seven of the eighteen skins sampled.
(3) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(4) The most popular aids used for the relief of pressure areas included synthetic sheepskin pads (supplied to 46.2% of the affected patients) and ripple mattresses (supplied to 28.8% of the affected patients).
(5) Three other infants had been placed on sheepskin rugs for the first time and were found dead shortly thereafter.
(6) Hospital sheepskins were almost almost uniformly mite free.
(7) Her house is cluttered with books, throws, sheepskin rugs and a black and white cat called Yum-Yum ("after the Mikado") whose smell is everywhere.
(8) Beds are inflatable mattresses with sheepskin rugs, and guests chop their own wood and pick their own blueberries.
(9) The dermal collagen fibre-mesh of sheepskin was purified by a proteolytic enzyme treatment after which the skins were split, providing a split-skin graft corresponding to the reticular layer of the dermis.
(10) The effect of protecting the breast with sheepskin was significant at the 95% level of confidence in reducing incidence of breast blisters.
(11) The "moods" for the season are in synergy with the catwalk, yet given deliberately non-fashionista names: so the 1960s retro trend, which includes a short, belted pale-blue coat (£99) very similar to a Gucci version and a cracked patent jacket with square sheepskin collar (£89) which nods deeply to the Louis Vuitton catwalk, is dubbed "Downtown."
(12) The space boot and foam heel protectors were far more successful than sheepskin rugs or polyester heel protectors, which provided little protection to the prominent heel.
(13) The mean number of mites recovered from nursery sheepskins (all woollen) was thirteen times as high as the mean number from other forms of adult or infant bedding sampled.
(14) The at-risk older patient must immediately be placed on a supersoft support, with heels protected with sheepskin boots.
(15) In search of a biological mesh-prosthesis, sheepskin was processed according to established methods in the manufacture of leather.
(16) It teems with locals buying blankets, headscarves and spices and tourists browsing the lutes, sheepskin hats and replica daggers.
(17) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
(18) Its brand-new sister chalet, Chamois Lodge, sleeping nine, is available for £9,335 for the week starting 7 April, and has "witty, mountain chic decor" with cowhide rugs, sheepskins, antiques and art, and a hot tub.
(19) However the protection afforded is no more than 90%, and even less if the condom is made of sheepskin.
(20) The too-clean models look straight out of central casting, with their scarves, sheepskins and surly, stoned expressions.