leather-papern. paper having a surface resembling that of leather.
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1890 A. HosieThree Years W. China 153 That famous tough paper which..is wrongly called ‘leather’ paper. The mistake is pardonable, for the character which means ‘leather’ also means ‘bark’. The paper is made from the fibrous inner bark of the Broussonetia papyrifera.