saddle soap

noun

1. a soap, usually consisting chiefly of Castile, used for cleaning and preserving saddles and other leather articles.

saddle soap

noun

1. a soft soap containing neat's-foot oil used to preserve and clean leather

Word History and Origins

Origin of saddle soap¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Person and intellect were always thoroughly scrubbed as with saddle-soap.

From Project Gutenberg

Leather cleaned with saddle soap can be polished by rubbing with a flannel cloth.

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(c) After again rinsing the sponge make a thick lather as described above with the saddle soap.

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