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leathern
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "leathern":- After a brief consideration, he packed up a few clothes in a small leathern valise, and, finding that nobody offered to oppose his progress, marched boldly out by the front door and started to walk to London. - "Dickens As an Educator", James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes.
- Findelkind set his lantern down, braced himself up by drawing tighter his old leathern girdle, set his sheepskin cap firm on his forehead, and went towards the sound as far as he could judge that it might be. - "Bimbi", Louise de la Ramee.
- As he did so with a sudden motion Kari shook the cloak back from his body and for the first time I saw that thrust through his leathern belt was a long weapon, half sword and half dagger, also that its sharpened steel was bare. - "The Virgin of the Sun", H. R. Haggard.