Definition of "karosses" []

• Plural form of kaross. (noun)

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• "Also he was continuously sending presents of game and of skins, or of rare karosses, that is, fur rugs, which he ordered to be delivered to her personally -- tokens, all of them, that she could not misunderstand."
• "The interior of the palace consisted of but one circular apartment, some twenty-five feet in diameter, hung round with magnificent "karosses," or curtains, made of the skins of various wild animals."
• "At present the chief articles of trade are karosses or mantles — the skins of which they are composed come from the Desert; next to them, ivory, the quantity of which can not now be great, inasmuch as the means of shooting elephants is sedulously debarred entrance into the country."