tannage
Americannoun
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the act or process of tanning
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a skin or hide that has been tanned
Etymology
Origin of tannage
Example Sentences
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During "tannage," bakelite is formed in the liquid, and practically all solubles originally present are deposited.
From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser
Tanning experiments carried out with the chromium, iron, aluminium, and calcium salts of Ordoval G yielded leathers which possessed proportionate characteristics of either kind of tannage to the extent to which either material was present.
From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser
The tannage completed, a light brown, fairly soft and full leather, possessing little tensile strength, results; this leather can be washed only with great difficulty and approaches more the character of a pickled pelt.
From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser
They should have got his cheek fresh tannage Such a day as today in the merry sunshine!
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
Those leathers which are intended to remain on the shelves for many decades, should be in this tannage.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
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