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[ noun ] an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Many styles have perforations and an almost weightlessness achieved via unlined leathers . At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)With leather cups fitted in his handlebars , he steered his bicycle . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap , and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt , its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)My camp made leather wallet , bulky with twisted , raised stitches around the edges , I stuffed with money I had been saving . |
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