Crossword-Solution: TAXIDERMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taxidermy | v. t. | The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “TAXIDERMY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Art of making lifelike fauna | 1 answer |
| Art that involves stuffing | 1 answer |
| Art useful in natural history museums. | 1 answer |
| Norman Bates' hobby | 1 answer |
| Professional stuff? | 1 answer |
| Stuffy business. | 1 answer |
| Stuffy profession? | 1 answer |
| Wildlife preservation method | 1 answer |
| Work in wildlife preservation? | 1 answer |
| Stuffing art | 1 answer |
| BATES | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TAXIDERMY (5)
But I suppose it had to be, and anyway, thanks just heaps for having done such a really perfectly gorgeous bit of taxidermy.
One is a little second-hand book-shop on Fourth Avenue, where he reads books about his hobbies, Mahometanism and taxidermy.
And a good lively collie pup could put that bit of taxidermy out of commission in less than five seconds.
Here in America we have the kindred arts of taxidermy and taxicabbery; one of these is the art of skinning animals and the other is the art of skinning people.
HORNADAY THE MINDS AND MANNERS OF WILD ANIMALS CAMP FIRES ON DESERT AND LAVA CAMP FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES TAXIDERMY AND ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTING TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.
Quotes with TAXIDERMY (3)
What are you doing here?” All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?” he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.
But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo.
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. In its place, taxidermy can be a useful and decent craft. However, it goes too far when the specimens put on display are exhibitions of dead, stuffed cities.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1958–2021).