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Leathern

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Made of leather. dated, not-comparable

    "For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]"

Etymology

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”).

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