Leathern Definition

lĕthərn
adjective
Made or consisting of leather.
Webster's New World
Like leather.
Webster's New World

Origin of Leathern

  • From Middle English letheren, from Old English leþeren, leþern, leþren, liþeren, liþren, lidrin (“made of leather, leathern"), equivalent to leather +"Ž -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (“leathern"), German ledern (“leathern").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English lethern from Old English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Leathern Sentence Examples

  • The "Luck of Eden Hall," which has been celebrated in a ballad by the duke of Wharton, and in a second ballad written by Uhland, the German poet, and translated by Longfellow, is an enamelled goblet, kept in a leathern case dating from the times of Henry IV.

  • Round the waist over the tunic was worn a leathern girdle having a broad iron buckle damascened with silver.

  • A leathern tongue (lingula) is often seen to project from beneath the straps..

  • On the king's birthday each bedesman received a new blue gown, a loaf, a bottle of ale, and a leathern purse containing a penny for every year of the king's life.

  • Besides the large trade carried on there are native manufactories of cloth, carpets and leathern articles.

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