Lambskin vs Shearling - What's the difference?
lambskin | shearling |
The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. This is a very fine form of leather.
A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
* {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97
, passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}
(chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
As nouns the difference between lambskin and shearling
is that lambskin is the skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. This is a very fine form of leather while shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time.lambskin
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(en noun)Anagrams
*shearling
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(en noun)- Her coat was lined with shearling.
