BEARSKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bearskin mean? 

• BEARSKIN (noun)
  The noun BEARSKIN has 2 senses:

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

2. tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions

  Familiarity information: BEARSKIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEARSKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bearskin" is a kind of...):

fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bearskin; busby; shako

Hypernyms ("bearskin" is a kind of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)

 Context examples 

A strip of scarlet cloth, a bearskin, twenty cartridges, and Kiche, went to pay the debt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all in gold.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And yet his first action, when the door had closed behind him, was to stagger against the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearth-rug.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)