Definitions for peltry

peltry pelt·ry

Spelling: [pel-tree]
IPA: /ˈpɛl tri/

Peltry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in peltry (elprty).

Definitions for peltry

noun

  1. fur skins; pelts collectively.
  2. a pelt.

Origin of peltry

1400-50; late Middle English Anglo-French pelterie, Old French peleterie furrier's wares, equivalent to peleter furrier (derivative of Latin pellis skin; see -er2<

Examples for peltry

Mabel was urgent with her sister to join the party at peltry when Urquhart was there.

Why, when she was at the Opera he had been at peltry with the Mabels.

The main support of the colony, trade in peltry, was bad at Quebec.

On the following day Pont-Gravé and Chauvin did some trading in peltry.

Now it so happened that there was none of this kind of peltry at the fort of old Baranoff.

And yet he had been at peltry that night; and yet he couldn't have dared!

The taboo, strictly speaking, only appears where the peltry is absent.

peltry bonds, once worth their weight in gold, had dropped to nothing.

But under your good allowance, Mistress Alvena, what is ‘peltry’?

The iron of the Chinese, as I have had occasion to observe, is remarkably bad, and all their articles of peltry are imported.

Word Value for peltry
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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