leopardskin

• leopard-skin, leopard skin

From leopard +‎ skin.

leopardskin (countable and uncountable, plural leopardskins)

1. The skin or pelt of a leopard.
2. Such a skin forming a simple article of clothing.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I turned, and followed him down the passage, and when we reached the great central cave saw that many Amahagger, some robed, and some merely clad in the sweet simplicity of a leopard skin, were hurrying along it.

3. (uncountable, attributive) A design, especially on fabric, similar to the markings of a leopard.