maril
/maˈrɪl/Bookbinding
noun
An ornamental binding material with a variegated grain, made from scraps of coloured leather mixed in a resin, compressed, and dried.
Origin
1970s. From -maril: see quot. 1974, although Smith notes elsewhere in the same work that it subsequently occurred to him that the word could also be analysed as from mar- + i- + l-.
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