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- noun obsolete Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
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- noun obsolete, Chaucer
Leather softened byboiling and shaped before ithardens , formerly used forarmour .
Etymologies
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French cuir bouilli, "boiled leather".
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