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leather-britches

leather-britches is the alternative form of leatherbritches.

Meaning of leatherbritches

Noun

leatherbritches pl (plural only)

  1. (Appalachia, plural, plural-only) Green beans strung on thread for drying and storage.
    • Sally sat on the porch threading beans on strings to make leatherbritches, and five long strings of pods already hung above her from the porch rafters to dry.1997, Charles Frazier, “The ground beneath her hands”, in Cold Mountain, New York: Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    shucky beans

Questions about leather-britches

What is leather-britches the alternative form of?
Leather-britches is the alternative form of leatherbritches.

Words near leather-britches in the dictionary

  1. leather lunged
  2. leather poisoning
  3. leather queen
  4. leather queens
  5. leather working
  6. leather-britches
  7. leather-coat
  8. leather-coats
  9. leather-hard
  10. leather-lunged
  11. leatherback

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