vegetable leather

English

Noun

vegetable leather (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable leathers)

1. An imitation of leather made of cotton waste.
2. Linen cloth coated with india rubber.
   • 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:

     Vegetable leather […] is now produced 50 yards in length , and 11 yards wide , every portion being of equal and of any required thickness , and the smallest portion is convertible

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vegetable leather”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vegetable leather”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)