half-leather


noun
  1. a type of half-binding in which the backs and corners of a book are bound in leather

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How to use half-leather in a sentence

  • The natives manage to hop over it now and then; they are about half leather anyhow, and the other half appetite.

    Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren Stoddard
  • If bound substantially in good half-leather, with leather corners, the cost is reckoned at 1s.

    A Book for All Readers | Ainsworth Rand Spofford
  • The natives manage to hop over it now and then; they are about half leather, anyhow, and the other half appetite.

    South-Sea Idyls | Charles Warren Stoddard
  • It was a ledger with a half-leather binding such as storekeepers use for accounts.

    The Garden of Eden | Max Brand
  • Cloth must be used for sides of all books bound in half-leather or half-duck.

    Library Bookbinding | Arthur Low Bailey