wineskin

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun an animal skin (usually a goatskin) that forms a bag and is used to hold and dispense wine

From wine + skin.

Harcourt, hand me that wineskin and a goblet. — A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
And what true man would risk damaging a wineskin?” That fairy godmother, Doña Rosita, conceived a fancy for Dick, who flirted with her in his bad Spanish so outrageously that she was delighted. — The Car of Destiny, C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
A naked figure carrying a wineskin, which appears upon each of two fine bas-reliefs of the time of Vespasian found near the Rostra Vetera in the Forum during the excavations conducted within the last few years by Signor Pietro Rosa, and which now stand in the Forum, is said, by archaeologists, to represent Marsyas. — The Satyricon — Complete, Petronius Arbiter

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