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white leather

–noun
leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.


Origin:
1400–50; late ME; cf. whitleather
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white leather also whit·leath·er   (hwĭt'lěth'ər, wĭt'-)   
n.  A soft leather specially treated with salt and alum.
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