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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Calfskin treated with chromium salts and having square markings on the grain.

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  • noun black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Joseph Box, a 19th-century London bootmaker.]

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