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leathern

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Definitions

  1. Made of leather.

Word origin

From Middle English letheren, from Old English liþren, from Proto-Germanic *liþrīnaz (“of leather, leathern”), equivalent to leather + -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (“leathern”), German ledern (“leathern”).

Used in a sentence

  • For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]
  • [A] street door was torn open to admit four boys, with their leathern straps of books over their shoulders.
  • Still more pleased was he when, inverting a leathern pouch over the end of the reed, and so filling it with the gas, he was able to send it soaring up into the air.

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