单词 | american leather |
释义 | > as lemmasAmerican leather American leather n. chiefly British (now rare) = American cloth n. (a). ΚΠ 1853 Times 9 Nov. 2/2 (advt.) To coachmakers... American leather cloth, 45 inches wide, 2s. 6d. a yard.] 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 335/1 Seating, horse-hair fabric, American leather, or other materials, made for covering the cushions of chairs, couches, &c. 1893 G. Allen Scallywag I. 97 That peculiar sort of deep-brown oil-cloth which is known..as American leather. 1914 R. C. Bosanquet Days in Attica 5 The pillow should have a removable outer cover of American leather or dark washing material. American leather American leather, a kind of oil-cloth; ‘an English name for what in the U.S. is called enameled cloth’ (Funk); vegetable leather, a material consisting of a layer or layers of linen on which india-rubber is spread. For Morocco, patent, Russia, Spanish, Turkey, white leather, see the prefixed words.extracted from leathern.< as lemmas |
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