bearskin

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Stone knives and bearskins!Does this apply to you?

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Quick take

the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bearskin gathered in one view.

noun

the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug)

noun

tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bearskin.

noun

the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug)

noun

tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions

Example sentences

Stone knives and bearskins!Does this apply to you?

I'm telling you it's no better than bearskins and sky gods.

Today, it would be equivalent to "stone knives and bearskins".

I have been to the land of stone knives and bearskins, and I am so very grateful we don't still live there.

By the time it folded in 1998, everything involved looked like stone knives and bearskins.

The difference with bearskins and crystals is you can measure and contrast effects.

But they lift the rest of us beyond starting from scratch with flint and bearskins, so it shouldn't be dismissed just because it isn't universal.

Clearly you have never met a tool which afterwards made you regard all other supposedly similar tools as stone knives and bearskins.

She certainly constructed an elaborate internal discourse out of this bearskin rug photo.

There's a whole art project dedicated to the problem of how we communicate to our stone-knives-and-bearskins descendants that the place where we put the nuclear waste is bad and not to be trod on.

If Losse could turn her own drunken donning of a bearskin rug into some bizarre cause for resentment, who knows what innocuous remark could have gotten transmogrified into cause for demotion or transfer of some hapless, apolitical engineer.