9 Metaphors for furs

The warrener, as his name implies, is a member of a subterranean community, and is less effeminate than his kindred who dwell upon the earth and have "the world at their will," and his fur is the most esteemed.

She told me that nature had furnished it with a covering quite sufficient to protect it from the cold; but I thought that it must then be a great deal too warm in summer, and had just commenced fanning it, when she explained to me that the fur was a great deal thinner in summer than in winter.

Or, to take a more familiar example, the fur on the inside of a tea-kettle is carbonate of lime; and, for anything chemistry tells us to the contrary, the chalk might be a kind of gigantic fur upon the bottom of the earth-kettle, which is kept pretty hot below.

Its fur was caramel and white.

His fur is mouldy and mangy, and he is manifestly ashamed of his tail, prehensile no moreand of his paws, "very hands, as you may say," miserable matches to his miserable feet.

Fur is a-gittin' skeercer all the time, an' they hev to come to stuff they used to larf at.

The prime furs were mink, coon, muskrat, wildcat, and beaver.

Skins of the lynx, cunningly matched, had been sewn together to make her a rug, and the soft fur of the wildcat was the outer covering of her bed.

Its fur is a dense coat of a grayish-coloured down, concealed by long coarse hair, which lies smooth, and is of a bright chestnut colour.

9 Metaphors for  furs