Cuir bouilli

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Cuir´ bou`illi´


1.In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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