Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leather prepared by boiling and pressing, so that it becomes extremely hard and capable of preserving permanently the shape and surface-decoration given it, and can afford considerable resistance to sword-cuts and other violence.
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- noun
Leather moulded into a particularshape and thenhardened , for makingarmor .
Etymologies
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French cuir ("leather") + bouilli ("boiled").
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Examples
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"His men wore lacquered _cuir-bouilli_ with white plumes, and you never saw such destriers!"
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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When it had dried to a fitting hardness it was covered with cuir-bouilli, or boiled leather, which made it watertight.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
hernesheir commented on the word cuir-bouilli
Boiled and stamped leather.
December 9, 2010