| 单词 | rough calf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrough calf rough calf n. Bookbinding tanned calfskin used with the flesh side outermost to bind books. 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 1730 J. Miller Humours Oxf. i. i. 4 A musty Aristotle in rough calf. 1852 Godey's Lady's Bk. Nov. 411 If the cover be rough calf or sheep, it is dressed with pumice-stone and a clothes-brush. 1963 B. C. Middleton Hist. Eng. Craft Bookbinding Technique 286 Rough calf was much used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 1990 L. Yeandle & E. Grislis in R. Hooker Tract. & Serm. 178 Morrice C..is a massive volume bound in rough calf. < as lemmas |
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