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English
Etymology
From snake + skin.
Noun
snakeskin (countable and uncountable, plural snakeskins)
- The skin of a snake
- (usually uncountable) The hide of a snake, used as leather.
- (countable) The moult of a snake.
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Adjective
snakeskin (not comparable)
- Made of snakeskin.
1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 10, in Have His Carcase:Sort of dago fellow; leads the orchestra down at the Winter Gardens ... You know the sort, all lah-di-dah and snakeskin shoes.