leather
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Noun (1)leathers
- an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanningType of animal skinKinds shoe leather, morocco, crushed leather, cowhide, pigskin, sheepskin, patent leather, alligator, grain, glove leather +16 more
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Translations
Noun material produced by tanning animal skin
- Spanish
- cuero
- French
- cuir
- German
- Leder
- Italian
- cuoio
- Portuguese
- couro
- Turkish
- deri
- Russian
- ко́жа kóža
- Arabic
- جِلْد jild
- Chinese
- 皮革 pígé
- Japanese
- 革 kawa
36 more languages
- Dutch
- leer
- Polish
- skóra
- Swedish
- läder
- Greek
- δέρμα dérma
- Korean
- 가죽 gajuk
- Indonesian
- kulit
- Vietnamese
- da thuộc
- Hungarian
- bőr
- Portuguese (PT)
- couro
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 皮革 pígé
- Albanian
- lëkurë
- Breton
- lêr
- Catalan
- cuir
- Corsican
- coghju
- Czech
- kůže
- Danish
- læder
- Esperanto
- ledo
- Estonian
- nahk
- Finnish
- nahka
- Georgian
- ტყავი ṭq̇avi
- Hebrew
- עוֹר or
- Icelandic
- leður
- Kurdish
- çerm
- Latvian
- āda
- Lithuanian
- oda
- Malagasy
- hoditra
- Norwegian
- lær
- Romanian
- piele
- Scottish Gaelic
- leathar
- Serbo-Croatian
- koža
- Slovak
- koža
- Slovenian
- usnje
- Swahili
- ngozi
- Walloon
- cur
- Welsh
- lledr
- Yiddish
- לעדער leder
Adjective made of leather
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. lether, AS. leðer; akin to D. leder, leêr, G. leder, OHG. ledar, Icel. leðr, Sw. läder, Dan. læder.
1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
2. The skin. Ironical or Sportive
☞ Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather.
Leather board, an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc. — Leather carp Zoology, a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp. — Leather jacket. Zoology (a) A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus). (b) A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis). — Leather flower Botany, a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color. — Leather leaf Botany, a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves. — Leather plant Botany, one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff tomentose leaves. — Leather turtle. Zoology See Leatherback. — Vegetable leather. (a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste. (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber. Andrew Ure
To beat, as with a thong of leather. obsolete or colloquial pseud. of Mary Ann
Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors