leathern

• His army consisted exclusively of cavalry; the line was formed of the heavy horsemen armed with long thrusting-lances, and protected, man and horse, by a coat of mail of metallic plates or a leathern doublet and by similar greaves; the mass of the troops consisted of mounted archers. —  The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy
• Show her a live father, and she saw but a duplicate of her own father, who from her infancy had been taken with fits and starts of discharging his duty to her, which duty was always incorporated in the form of a fist or a leathern strap, and being discharged hurt her. —  Our Mutual Friend
• They seem to me to keep together, and to look down with sovereign contempt upon their leathern-bottomed neighbors: as I have seen decayed gentry carry a high head among the plebeian society with which they were reduced to associate. —  Little Britain
• The leathern-bound Bible my grandfather read. —  Songs of Friendship
• Mended unseemly; leathern were his greaves, —  The Odyssey of Homer

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