saddle leather

noun

hide, as from a cow or bull, that undergoes vegetable tanning and is used for saddlery.
leather that simulates the vegetable-tanned product and is used for a variety of goods, as handbags and jackets.

Origin of saddle leather

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby saddle leather

saddle gall, saddle head, saddle horn, saddle horse, saddle joint, saddle leather, saddle nose, saddle oxford, saddle point, saddle roof, saddle seat

Example sentences from the Web for saddle leather

  • Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable to sole-leather.

    The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • There is something in the creak of saddle-leather that has a way of putting heart in a man.

    Dwellers in the Hills |Melville Davisson Post

  • His skin was the color of his saddle-leather, and his inflamed eye-balls had the redness of live coals.

    'Me-Smith' |Caroline Lockhart

  • Western winds, heated by fiery Western suns, had burned his face to the color of saddle-leather.

    Mystery Ranch |Arthur Chapman