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Russia leather   /rˈəʃə lˈɛðər/   Listen
Russia leather

noun
1.
A smooth leather tanned with willow, birch, or oak, and scented on the flesh side with birch oil.





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"Russia leather" Quotes from Famous Books



... booksellers for mail-coach copies of standard periodical publications. I cannot say that I am greatly addicted to black-letter, but I profess myself well versed in the marble bindings of Andrew Millar, in the middle of the last century; nor does my taste revolt at Thurloe's State Papers, in Russia leather; or an ample impression of Sir William Temple's Essays, with a portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller in front. I do not think altogether the worse of a book for having survived the author a generation or two. I have more confidence in the dead than the living. Contemporary ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin


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