A soft flexible leather prepared from sheepskin, used chiefly in bookbinding as a substitute for morocco. Cf. basan, n.

leather tawed with oil, the hair side not being removed until after the tawing.

elliptical. (For sheep leather; cf. calf-leather at calf, n.1 2, kid-leather n. at kid, n.1 compounds 1a.) Leather made from the skin of the…

Short for Turkey leather n. at compounds 3.

= Russia leather, n. In later use chiefly with lower-case initial. Also attributive.

tanned calfskin used with the flesh side outermost to bind books.

Pertaining to or commonly used for legal treatises or documents, as law-binding, law-calf, law-sheep.

a variegated leather used for bookbinding.

a material made from split sheepskin with a coating of paste or glue to harden it and improve the grain; (also occasionally) an inferior kind of…

In full Rutland morocco. A superior roan leather, used in bookbinding.

(see quot.)

a type of morocco produced in regions near the River Niger and used for bookbinding.

Usually in form niger. = Niger morocco n. at sense 3a.