Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leather for making gloves.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I used to read a big padded glove-leather edition of Tennyson on lunch break every day when I worked for a mutual fund.
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I used to read a big padded glove-leather edition of Tennyson on lunch break every day when I worked for a mutual fund.
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Memsa'b had gotten him to tolerate a set of bright red glove-leather leggings before they left, carefully fitted to and sewn onto his lower legs, and the gamekeepers and farmers were under strict orders not to shoot the raven with the red legs, so even an incident of egg eating at the home farm was let off with a scolding.
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He ended up staring at the bulkhead in front of his comfortable glove-leather seat and wishing it was a movie screen.
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Melvin Tanbridge rocked back in the soft glove-leather chair and watched the sun set over the ocean through the tinted glass wall in his office.
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Melvin Tanbridge rocked back in the soft glove-leather chair and watched the sun set over the ocean through the tinted glass wall in his office.
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She stumbled a little and cursed her high-heeled pumps then, recklessly, changed them to flat, glove-leather boots.
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The seeds are large, thick, and pure white: the surface, in appearance and to the touch, resembles glove-leather or dressed goat-skin.
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The Corks for the stopping of these Jars should be cover'd with soft glove-leather, for the naked Corks will make the Pickles musty.
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The tall man stomped on Charlie’s toes, a size-eighteen glove-leather loafer driven by two hundred and seventy pounds of death and used-record dealer.
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