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wash-leathers

wash-leathers is the plural of wash-leather.

Meaning of wash-leather

Noun

wash-leather (countable and uncountable, plural wash-leathers)

  1. Leather that has been treated so as to be very absorbent. Usually made of sheepskin treated with oil, and used for dusting or as an absorbent lining in pockets, gloves, etc.
    • This combination shirt, of which the seat was made of wash-leather, protected the whole body down to the knees...1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
  2. Buff leather for regimental belts.

Questions about wash-leathers

What is wash-leathers the plural of?
Wash-leathers is the plural of wash-leather.

Words near wash-leathers in the dictionary

  1. wash-basin
  2. wash-basins
  3. wash-gilding
  4. wash-hand
  5. wash-leather
  6. wash-leathers
  7. wash-machine
  8. wash-machines
  9. wash-off
  10. wash-offs
  11. wash-out

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