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box calf

–noun
a chrome-tanned calfskin with square markings produced by graining.

Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; allegedly after Joseph Box, a London bootmaker
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box calf  
n.  Calfskin treated with chromium salts and having square markings on the grain.

[After Joseph Box, a 19th-century London bootmaker.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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