Meanings
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adj
made of leather; now chiefly archaic or literary
The traveler carried water in a leathern bottle strapped to his saddle.
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Etymology
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.