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patent leathers

patent leathers noun: patent-leather shoes. Also the plural of patent leather.

Noun

patent leathers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Patent-leather shoes.
    • […] his patent leathers were beautifully polished, and his hair curled by machinery.1870 February 1, “Robin Hood and His Merry Men, and the Larks They Played in the Greenwood Shade. […] Chapter III. Concluding the Mystery of Little John’s History.”, in Edwin J[ohn] Brett, editor...
    • What if the fertilizer is sometimes on the sidewalk, gravel walk, or front porch, and the first dark night finds it distributed by the Cinderellian slipper or patent leathers of some party bound pedestrian?1889 June 15, E. L. P., “An Adjacent Cow Town”, in The Chicago Tribune, volume XLIX, published 17 June 1889, page 4, column 6

Also used as

patent leathers is also the plural of patent leather.

Forms of patent leathers

alternative formpatent-leathers

Questions about patent leathers

What does patent leathers mean?
Patent leathers means patent-leather shoes.
What part of speech is patent leathers?
Patent leathers is a noun.

Words near patent leathers in the dictionary

  1. patent hammers
  2. patent inside
  3. patent insides
  4. patent law
  5. patent leather
  6. patent leathers
  7. patent log
  8. patent logs
  9. patent medicine
  10. patent medicines
  11. patent model

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