saddle leather

noun

hide, as from a cow or bull, that undergoes vegetable tanning and is used for saddlery.
leather that simulates the vegetable-tanned product and is used for a variety of goods, as handbags and jackets.

Origin of saddle leather

First recorded in 1825–35

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The smell of dust and saddle leather has done a lot for our thirst, but little for our appetites.
Old Fort Garland | James T. Forrest
His skin was the color of his saddle-leather, and his inflamed eye-balls had the redness of live coals.
'Me-Smith' | Caroline Lockhart
When Dick heard somewhere ahead the creaking of saddle leather and the rattle of harness he drew aside on the trail and waited.
The Breaking Point | Mary Roberts Rinehart
There is something in the creak of saddle-leather that has a way of putting heart in a man.
Dwellers in the Hills | Melville Davisson Post
Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable to sole-leather.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table | Oliver Wendell Holmes

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