saddle leather

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of saddle leather¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

The smell of dust and saddle leather has done a lot for our thirst, but little for our appetites.

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His skin was the color of his saddle-leather, and his inflamed eye-balls had the redness of live coals.

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When Dick heard somewhere ahead the creaking of saddle leather and the rattle of harness he drew aside on the trail and waited.

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There is something in the creak of saddle-leather that has a way of putting heart in a man.

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Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable to sole-leather.

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