Another word for leather
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- Either of two species of agile goat antelopes (Rupicapra rupicapra or R. pyrenaica) of mountainous regions of Europe and western Asia, having upright horns with backward-hooked tips.
- A soft leather made from the hide of these antelopes or of other animals such as deer or sheep.
- A piece of such leather or of a fabric or material made to resemble it, used as a polishing or drying cloth or in shirts.
- Leather that is used to make shoes.
- Leather from which shoes are made that is worn out through walking.
- Basic, old-fashioned or traditional; specifically (journalism) shoe-leather journalism or shoe-leather reporting: journalism involving walking from place to place observing things and speaking to people, rather than sitting indoors at a desk.
- Any of numerous squamate reptiles often classified in the suborder Lacertilia, characteristically having a scaly elongated body with a tapering tail, four legs, movable eyelids, and external ear openings.
- Leather made from the skin of one of these reptiles.
- The skin of a shark.
- Leather made from the skin of a shark.
- A synthetic fabric having a smooth, somewhat shiny surface.
- The skin of a snake, especially when prepared as leather.
- The dressed skin of the North American bison, used as a lap robe, cape, or blanket.
- The hide of a cow.
- The leather made from this hide.
- A strong heavy flexible whip, usually made of braided leather.
- The untanned hide of cattle or other animals.
- A whip or rope made of rawhide.
- To beat with a rawhide whip.
- Soft leather made from sheepskin, used especially for gloves.
- The outermost layer of skin, especially that which forms the cuticle.
- The skin of a sheep either tanned with the fleece left on or in the form of leather or parchment.
- A diploma.
- The skin of a goat.
- Leather made from a goatskin.
- A container, as for wine, made from a goatskin.
- Leather made from the hide of a deer.
- A garment made from deerskin.
- The skin of a male deer.
- A soft, often grayish-yellow leather usually having a suede finish, once made from deerskins but now generally made from sheepskins.
- Clothing, especially breeches or shoes, made from buckskin.
- The hide of a horse.
- Leather made from the hide of a horse.
- The hide of a calf.
- Fine leather made from the hide of a calf.
- A fine parchment made from calfskin, lambskin, or kidskin and used for the pages and binding of books.
- A work written or printed on this parchment.
- A heavy off-white fine-quality paper resembling this parchment.
- The skin of a sheep or goat prepared as a material on which to write or paint.
- A written text or drawing on a sheet of this material.
- Paper made in imitation of this material.
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