How To Use Goatskin In A Sentence
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Vamp fabrics uses leather of high quality complete grain and costly goatskin.
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They appear to have been constructed of greased leather stretched over a wooden frame containing goatskin bags which could be filled with water for submerging and then squeezed out for surfacing.
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Another instrument very much used is the gaita (bagpipe), a goatskin bag filled with air by means of which a kind of pipe is made to produce a continuous, monotonous sound.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The summer sun started to shine, and he discarded the heavy wet goatskin, deciding that he now had no need to carry its weight.
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She had a sudden image of herself, unkempt and twiggy, with a long beard and goatskin clothes, chasing lizards.
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The drum can be made up of deerskin, goatskin or cowhide and is known as tambur among the Brunei Malays, while the Kedayans call it the dombak.
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Odysseus walked up to the cave with a goatskin full of wine.
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For new work, one of Fox's favorite cover materials is goatskin and not just because of its soft white pattern and texture.
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Its chief industries are yogurt processing, the production of goatskin clothing and farming.
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A rude skull-cap of goatskin protected his head from the sun.
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A traditional game among the Afar, an ethnic group, is kwosso, in which the goal is to keep a ball made of rolled goatskins (resembling a soccer ball) away from the opposing team.
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Men also wear frilly goatskin bands on their arms and legs.
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On the pavement a woman with no pretence to fashion (or else obedient to an ugly fashion) came past, too brightly dressed in a sack overcoat of goatskin; but no, it was not a woman, it was a chauffeur who, enveloped in his ponyskin, was proceeding on foot to his garage.
The Captive
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The first of its two sections consisted of ‘Pelts,’ 12 brightly dyed goatskins pinned to the walls.
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And occasionally the pair produce more than just scented goatskins.
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The Ondangwa based Northern Tannery, which is operating under EPZ status, has so far invested N $42 million in the plant that is initially expected to process 500 hides and 1000 sheep and goatskins per month for export.
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As Ramon and Hector pull on goatskin chaps and nylon slickers, we head up-valley, following the faint trails left by huemules, Patagonia's endangered red deer.
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His benefactor also made him a goatskin jerkin and a hareskin cap.
Times, Sunday Times
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Young men preferred bare legs made possible by wearing short skirts, especially those made from kidskin (lambskin or goatskin) because of its smooth hairs.
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The dhol is a north Indian drum made from goatskin, and anybody who has stood next to one will testify to how loud it sounds when played.
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The ruffians wore goatskin hats, gritty cloaks, and leggings of leather.
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They're made of goatskin, with extra-long gauntlets for up-to-the-elbow protection.
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She tasted the wine, which had both power and grace, and smelled a little of the goatskin.
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‘Obviously, if you are a traditional musician then you must bang on something, a piece of goatskin or half dead animal,’ laughs Matheson.
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The dhol is a north Indian drum made from goatskin, and anybody who has stood next to one will testify to how loud it sounds when played.
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The dhol is a north Indian drum made from goatskin, and anybody who has stood next to one will testify to how loud it sounds when played.
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The image of a goat rampant on a field of strawberry and lime yogurt is a tribute to two of our main industries - the production of goatskin clothing and yogurt processing.
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Women of the northern nomadic tribes, for example, wear gorfa, a sheepskin or goatskin dyed red or black and wrapped around the body, held in place with a leather cord and a rope belt.
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He makes goatskins into garments, using a nail as a needle.
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Canteens and goatskins had been half-drained before this was discovered by unfortunate soldiers seeking to slake their thirst.
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The goatskin drumhead is hit by a wooden stick with a curved end.
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And so the word gets around, much like it did when Memete was carried in three decades ago on a goatskin.
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With a goatskin head and a brass bell for amplification, the sarode bears similarities to a few instruments more familiar to Western ears.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
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It's like a pear-shaped instrument, but this one, you can see the neck is long and the body is half a tree, covered in skin, covered in goatskin and the strings are made of gut.
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At least I have Mark's goatskin parchments, witness to His words.
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After taking a couple of gulps, she placed the goatskin down and called Will over.
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The family then begins reveling in their salvation, drinking wine from goatskins.
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The goatskin manuscripts of these ancient psalms were unearthed near the Dead Sea ruins of Qumran in 1948.
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To complete the effect, she makes Jacob wear goatskin to approximate Esau's hairiness, a maneuver that successfully deceives Isaac and results in Isaac's mistakenly blessing him instead of Esau.
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Lots of us have been embarrassed by mum flashing pictures of us naked as babies on the goatskin rug.
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Only the thigh-length, brown and white goatskin boots with cloven toes offer any indication that here sits the most outlandish, controversial female musician of her generation.
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A statue of him, adorning the house where he was born, shows him in goatskins, gazing out over what would have been a busy fishing port in his day.
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Tuareg and Hausa craftsmen are famous for their fancy leather work - beautiful boots, colorful sandals, and goatskin bags.
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sarrau," in which an antiquary would have recognized the "saye," or the "sayon" of the Gauls, ended at his middle, where it was fastened to two leggings of goatskin by slivers, or thongs of wood, roughly cut, -- some of them still covered with their peel or bark.
The Chouans
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He describes the life-enhancing delight of still being capable of celebrating the dance of the Padstow horse, ‘chasing sweet lusty Spring with pipes, goatskin and goats’.
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Legend has it that, struggling with altitude sickness and tropical bugs, he has crawled into caves to rescue music written on goatskins and covered with bird and bat droppings.
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Unveiled women volunteer shy smiles as they continue with their chores: scrubbing pans, spinning wool, or in one case churning butter in a goatskin suspended from a wooden tripod.
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Greek fondness for resinated wine originated in antiquity when goatskin wine bags and later wooden barrels were sealed with resin to prevent leakage.
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In The Shadow Of The Sun, he recounts innumerable random acts of kindness from a truck driver who shares his last goatskin of water with him when they break down in the Sahara to the doctors who save his life.
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He wears "High-top boots expensively clicker'd with gold taps, a pair of hip-hugging jodhpur-style pants in a faded mauve tone, an amount of gold chains, a heavy mink coat to keep out the worst of the hardwind's assaults and a goatskin beanie hat set pavee-style at the crown of his head.
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
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It was noticeable, however, that most of the lead drummers (‘lolay’ men) maintained their allegiance to goatskin.
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Men go naked, and the women may wear goatskin skirts.
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The little brats will only mash it into your lovely oiled floorboards and goatskin rugs.
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By the heyday of the binder's craft, the early to mid eighteenth century, two types of leather were recognized as the best: skiver, or lambskin, which was strong but so thin that it scarcely required any paring, and Moroccan goatskin, which was highly valued for its skiver-like characteristics combined with its delightful reddish color.
Books: Modernity's Abuse of an Art
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Clad in stinking goatskin, Selkirk greeted the Englishmen who saw him from their ship.
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The overhead webbing became our goatskin roof.
Times, Sunday Times
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She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
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This rare ornament would have been a beaded replica of the traditional men's umutsha belt, the front of which comprised the isinene, made of animal tails or strips of leather, and the back the ibheshu, a square piece of goatskin.
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Greek fondness for resinated wine originated in antiquity when goatskin wine bags and later wooden barrels were sealed with resin to prevent leakage.
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Only the thigh-length, brown and white goatskin boots with cloven toes offer any indication that here sits the most outlandish, controversial female musician of her generation.
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Among other equally despicable practices associated with this day was the lashing of young women by two young men, clad only in a bit of goatskin and wielding goatskin thongs, who had been smeared with blood of sacrificial goats and dogs.
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These goatskin shrunken heads are handmade in Ecuador only for us.
Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives
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The ruffians wore goatskin hats, gritty cloaks, and leggings of leather, all diffusing the odor of a hundred bathless nights and days.
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A goatskin rug covers the carpet in front of a brass fireplace with marble surround and wooden mantelpiece.
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Inside hang sheepskins, saddlebags, the goatskin that Hector and Lalo skinned yesterday to make chaps, a shopping bag reading I LOVE YOU.
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Armed only with a satchel full of food, and a goatskin full of water, Gilbart had been given the assignment of walking straight through the Desert of Purification.
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The soft yet exceptionally durable goatskin is water repellent to protect in foul weather.
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Zulu men, for instance, sport the amabheshu, a type of apron of goatskin or leather worn at the back.
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The head is adorned with a papakha, a fur cap of sheep or goatskin with the fleece side out, which hangs down over the forehead.
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Behind us came the five baggage camels, loaded down with goatskins of water.
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Soft goatskins and sheepskins were laid out so the fighters didn't damage each other any more than necessary.