leathern

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   made of leather; now chiefly archaic or literary

   The traveler carried water in a leathern bottle strapped to his saddle.

From Middle English letheren and Old English lithren, from a Proto-Germanic adjective meaning 'made of leather.' It is equivalent to leather + the material-forming suffix -en, as in wooden and woolen. The shorter attributive form leather has largely replaced leathern in modern English.

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