(a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then there’s an inestimable amount of Discworld spinoffery: chess pieces, wizardly hats, cloaks and T-shirts, leathern bags, pottery figurines, fantastic artwork, magic clobber of every kind including dribbly candles – all made by and sold to fans.
Leathery
Definition:
(a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sea turtles lay about 100 leathery-shelled eggs in a 25 cm diameter chamber carefully excavated about 50 cm deep in a nesting beach, where the eggs exchange gases (at approximately 28 degrees C) during their 60-day incubation period.
(2) An ancient woman with leathery skin sat behind the desk.
(3) Active coronal caries was present in only 11.6% of the subjects, whereas active (soft or leathery) root caries lesions were present in 31.5% of the subjects.
(4) Punk rock lives on through a network of leathery stoners and their dogs.
(5) Erythrodermic mastocytosis is a rare variant of diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis in which the skin becomes red, thickened, and lichenified and has a doughy consistency with multiple small papules on its surface, giving a leathery appearance to the skin.
(6) There are the black eyes, once compared to tiny oil wells, and the massive, leathery hands that erupt from his sleeves.
(7) The cutaneous manifestations of this syndrome include leathery thickening of the skin, hyperpigmentation and hypertrichosis.
(8) Within a period of 2-6 months all lesions had changed from soft, greasy and yellowish to leathery or hard, darkly discoloured tissue, indicating a gradual transition from active into inactive stages of caries.
(9) Burnett helped create Donald Trump – the man, the myth and the legend, all neatly wrapped into one leathery package.
(10) " His face creases up and he emits a deep, leathery laugh.
(11) He has the leathery complexion of someone who has spent long hours outdoors, and what looks like a black eye.
(12) We set up a prospective study to establish a hypothesis which could explain the formation of the typical leathery crust.
(13) The characteristics of chronologically aged skin should be differentiated from the features of photoaging, which is marked by yellowed, leathery, sagging, wrinkled, elastic skin, as well as underlying connective tissue damage and various benign, premalignant, and malignant neoplasms.
(14) They are large bipeds with big leathery wings, horns on their head and tails.
(15) We leapt up, inflated by Robin Cook ’s ethical foreign policy – only to come crashing down crotch-first on Blair’s hypocritical and leathery realpolitik.
(16) Lower down on the list of significance, many older people with leathery skin now regret their sun worshipping youth and their refusal of any sun block prophylactic.
(17) A 34-year-old woman presented with leathery thickening and haemorrhagic lesions of several finger- and toe-nails as first symptoms of an HTLV-I infection.
(18) The Caribou frontman may resemble a nerdy tour guide but here at Croatia’s Dimensions festival he’s as revered as any leathery DJ legend.
(19) Many species of skates and ray and some sharks reproduce by laying leathery eggcases, which remain on the seabed or attached to seaweed for several months while the embryo develops into a miniature version of the adult.
(20) Among countless bars offering loud rock, a fistful worth checking are Cool Arrows (1025 Nogalitos Street) and Saluté International Bar (2801 N Saint Mary's), both featuring Tejano bands and DJs; Casbeers , founded in 1932, has recently shifted to 1150 South Alamo St and offers fine food and leathery singer-songwriters; Cowboys Dancehall (3030 North East Loop 410) lives up to its name, with everyone wearing Stetsons and line dancing to slick country bands.