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Bordeau(x)
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an inferior grade of beaver pelt.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1735
The beaver . . . was classified into eight varieties. [Third] came in order the dry winter beaver, and the Bordeau, both worth three shillings and sixpence [a pound].
1844
The third the dry Winter Beaver, and fourth the Bordeau, is much the same. . . .
1912
Such furs! Beaver in countless packs, all the fat winter skins,--no Bordeaux, no Mittain.