Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The upper-leather (of a shoe).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Upper leather.

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  • noun upper leather

Etymologies

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over- +‎ leather

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Examples

  • Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet: nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.

    Induction. Scene II. The Taming of the Shrew 1914

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