whitleather

[hwit-leth-er, wit-]

noun

1. white leather.

Word History and Origins

Origin of whitleather¹

First recorded in 1325–75, whitleather is from the Middle English word whitlether. See white, leather

Example Sentences

Whitleather, hwit′leth-ėr, n. leather dressed with alum, white leather: the paxwax or nuchal ligament of the ox.

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She'll pull through; she's tough as whitleather; her trouble's not of the body, but the mind.

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Even brass or whitleather would not stand the wear and tear that your constitution is subjected to.

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Interlaced with citations to the ancient charters of Virginia were terms of fury—"detestable Thought", "Ungenerous Insinuation", "despicable Opinion", "slavery", "oppression", terms which suggest the level to which rhetoric had risen even for as rational a man as the moderate burgess from Prince George County, now grown "tough as whitleather" with "something of the look of musty old Parchments which he handleth and studieth much".

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Albert, the cook, was swindled in the purchase of a fowl for our New Year's dinner; he supposed he was getting a young and tender turkey, but we find it to be an ancient Shanghai rooster, with flesh as tough as whitleather.

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