noun
- animal skins or furs, especially those prepared for commercial use
Usage: archaic; historical
Examples
- The fur traders loaded their canoes with valuable peltry.
- Native Americans often traded peltry for European goods.
- The warehouse stored bales of peltry from the northern territories.
- Beaver peltry was highly prized in the colonial fur trade.
- The company’s profits depended on the quality of their peltry.
- Merchants traveled great distances to acquire fine peltry.