| 单词 | law-calf |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaw-calf f. Pertaining to or commonly used for legal treatises or documents, as law-binding, law-calf, law-sheep. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather roan1383 Turkey leather1655 sheep1705 Turkey1715 Russia1724 rough calf1730 law1738 mottled calf1857 pastegrain1880 Rutland1894 Cambridge calf1895 Niger morocco1898 Niger1946 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Book-binding French-binding, law-binding, marble-binding..&c. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 353 Goodly octavos, with a red label behind, and that under-done-pie-crust-coloured cover, which is technically known as ‘law calf’. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 89/1 The uncoloured skin..is used in the peculiar style of binding called Law. 1895 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Short Hist. Bookbinding 25 Law Calf.—Law books are usually bound in calf left wholly uncoloured. < as lemmas |
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