Dictionary
let-out
Pronunciation: (
—adj.let'out';
—n.let'out"), [key]—
adj.
(of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
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n.
Chiefly Brit.a means of escape; loophole.
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