white leather


noun

leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
Also whitleather.

Origin of white leather

1400–50; late Middle English; cf. whitleather

Example sentences from the Web for white leather

  • Coquenil drew an envelope from his breast pocket and from it he took a number of white-leather fragments.

    Through the Wall |Cleveland Moffett

British Dictionary definitions for white leather

white leather

noun

leather that has been treated with a chemical, such as alum or salt, to make it white Also called: whitleather (ˈwɪtlɛðə)