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white leather

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white leather also whit·leath·er  (hwtlr, wt-)
n.
A soft leather specially treated with salt and alum.

white leather
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Tanning) leather that has been treated with a chemical, such as alum or salt, to make it white Also called whitleather [ˈwɪtlɛðə]
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Noun1.white leatherwhite leather - a leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt
leather - an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning


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Upon his head he clapped a steel cap, and this he covered by one of soft white leather, in which stood a nodding cock's plume.
When she went to her country-place at Prebaudet, she drove there in an old wicker carriole, hung on two straps of white leather, drawn by a wheezy mare, and scarcely protected by two leather curtains rusty with age.
 
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