wash-leather

Or wash·leath·er

[wosh-leth-er, wawsh-]

noun

1. a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wash-leather¹

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

His black coat was beautifully braided, elegantly padded on the shoulders, tightly pulled in at the waist; his buff waistcoat exactly matched his wash-leather gloves; and with him there entered the room a pleasing fragrance shed by the moss roses in his button-hole.

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He himself was neat and natty, perfumed and oiled, smelling of success—with a flower in his coat, new wash-leather gloves on his industrious hands and a shining topper upon his clever bald head.

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Both were most simply attired, for it was the whim of Lady Mabel, when in the country, to wear short woollen skirts, leaving visible her shapely ankles, and otherwise to cast away the conventions of Bond Street by the use of wash-leather gloves and a stout walking stick.

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Bags of beads followed, wash-leather bags carefully tied up, and some of them filled with the minutest of beads.

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The bells are struck by mallets, which are of two kinds—a pair of hard wood for forte passages, and a pair covered 124 with wash-leather for piano effects.

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