leathern
Americanadjective
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made of leather.
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resembling leather.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of leathern
before 1000; Middle English, Old English lether ( e ) n. See leather, -en 2
Example Sentences
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Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid shilling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Black coachmen and white, in cockaded silk hats, with thorny whips at jaunty angles, fluttered the leathern ribbons that guided the cobs that drew glistening Brewster cut-unders to the theatre.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling."
From Time Magazine Archive
Habitually this Lord Bishop of Truro dresses shabbily, in an old black cassock, a leathern girdle.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stopped only long enough to fasten the crutches onto his back with the leathern thong and to wind his hood into a kind of hat that perched on top of his head.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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