wineskin in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.
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This 273-millitre wineskin rolls up into a small tube when it's empty and can fit inside other vessels.
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Similarly, old wineskins had been stretched to the limit as wine had fermented inside them; using them again therefore risked bursting them.
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He was depicted as a "silen", carrying a wineskin on his left shoulder and raising his right arm.
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There is also the longstanding fact that my alternative container of choice is the wineskin.
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No, he pours new wine into new wineskins.
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He visited the oracle who merely told him that he was instructed not to unstop the wineskins neck.
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Putting new wine into used wineskins is asking for trouble, just as a prime minister seeking to advance a new politics can't succeed by continuing old habits.
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
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It's time for new wines in new wineskins.
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