/ ˈleðə(r); NAmE / noun
1.
[ U , C ] material made by removing the hair or fur from animal skins and preserving the skins using special processes :
a leather jacket
The soles are made of leather.
a leather-bound book
2.
leathers [ pl. ] clothes made from leather, especially those worn by people riding motorcycles
—see also chamois leather , patent leather
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IDIOMS
see hell
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English lether , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leer and German Leder , from an Indo-European root shared by Irish leathar and Welsh lledr .