A leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt.

synoniem: whit leather.

Roget 327: tenacity, toughness, strength; (cohesion) 46; grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion) 46; sequacity^†; stubbornness etc. (obstinacy);; glue, cement, glutinousness^†, sequaciousness^†, viscidity, (semiliquidity) 352.    leather; white leather, whitleather^†; gristle, cartilage.    unbreakability, tensile strength.    ... meer laten zien