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Definition of Shoe leather
1. Noun. Leather used to make shoes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoe Leather
Literary usage of Shoe leather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"Butchers' meat, vegetables, fruit, groceries, candles, fuel, liquors, articles
of clothing, and shoe- leather, had all risen in price in proportion as ..."
2. Passages from My Autobiography by Morgan (Sydney) (1859)
"nephew, M. Brunet, and ourselves—as good a lad as ever stepped in shoe-leather.
Monsieur Raoul Rochette to Lady Morgan. Palace of the French Institute, ..."
3. Leather Manufacture: A Practical Handbook of Tanning, Currying, and Chrome by Alexander Watt (1906)
"Currying Satin or Glove shoe leather.—Soaking and Splitting.— Buffing.—Blacking
and Setting.—Finishing Satin or Glove Leather. —Levant Leather. ..."