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white leather

American  

noun

  1. leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.


white leather British  

noun

  1. Also called: whitleather.  leather that has been treated with a chemical, such as alum or salt, to make it white

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of white leather

1400–50; late Middle English; cf. whitleather

Example Sentences

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She wears battered white leather sandals; at the top of the frame, we see the very bottoms of a slip and a skirt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The only two aesthetic exceptions are an LED screen behind the stage and the theater seats, which were white leather and are now plush red.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Combs would regularly bring "random women" there to party, turning up with an entourage of dozens of people in "three white jeeps, with white rims and white leather seats", they say.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

One video opens with a large white leather handbag covered in the signature LV logo of Louis Vuitton.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024

Val was clad all in white; white woolen breeches tucked into high boots of bleached white leather, white bearskin cloak pinned at the shoulder with a carved weirwood face, white tunic with bone fastenings.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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