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leatherbound

leatherbound adjective: bound in leather.

Adjective

leatherbound (not comparable)

  1. Bound in leather.
    • Then I got to the beasts — the foumart, the cur fox, the baboon, the Chillingham bull — and suddenly, gazing at a handsome illustration of a lion, I remembered, as a child, pulling down an impossibly heavy old leatherbound book of fables, full of magical drawings of wolves and crows and bears...2007 June 17, Dominique Browning, “Into the Wood”, in New York Times

Forms of leatherbound

alternative formleather-bound

Origin of leatherbound

From leather + bound.

Questions about leatherbound

What does leatherbound mean?
Leatherbound means bound in leather.
What part of speech is leatherbound?
Leatherbound is an adjective.

Words near leatherbound in the dictionary

  1. leatherbark
  2. Leatherbarrow
  3. Leatherberry
  4. Leatherberrys
  5. leatherboard
  6. leatherbound
  7. leatherboy
  8. leatherboys
  9. leatherbritches
  10. Leatherbury
  11. Leatherburys

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