Definition of "fishskin" [fish•skin]

• The skin of a fish (noun)

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• "Various entities, private and public, issued their own — they typically did not last very long but the Journal article, as noted above, goes through the wide range of forms they took, from paper to leather, metal, fishskin parchment, and lots of other things."
• "He looked at fishskin scrolls covered with writing in grease-based ink and did not comprehend."
• "In summer their clothing is of sealskin and fishskin; and in winter it is of the thicker reindeer hides."