noun
- animal skins or furs, especially those prepared for commercial use
Usage: archaic; historical
Examples
- The fur traders loaded their canoes with valuable peltries.
- Native American tribes often traded peltries for European goods.
- The warehouse stored peltries from beaver, fox, and mink.
- Colonial merchants made fortunes dealing in peltries.
- The expedition’s success was measured by the quality of peltries collected.
- French trappers brought their peltries to the trading post each spring.