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  • adjective Bound in calfskin.

Etymologies

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calf +‎ bound

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Examples

  • Our clothes looked pretty much like anyone else's, so there was nothing worth her attention, until I, in my enthusiasm, inadvertently snatched up with a bilge-stained underskirt my calfbound copy of the latest issue of Immortal Lifestyles Monthly and flung them both on the laundry heap.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

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