Leather

• Leather is historically related to Cow.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats hides and tanned leather among animal materials, with cattle skins as ordinary stock. A named leather beside cow, not parchment as writing skin and not raw hide as untanned.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Bag is historically related to Leather.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats leather bags and skins among ordinary carry gear. A named bag beside leather, not crane-bag as myth alone.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Shoe is historically related to Leather.

  Beck’s draper’s and related dress-trade speech seats shoes among leather footwear of ordinary wear. A named shoe beside leather, not oxford or derby as specialty forms alone.

  from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882

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European folklore

• Gambeson is historically related to Leather.

  Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the gambeson among quilted soft defences worn under or instead of plate, in the soft-armour neighborhood with leather and padded coats. A named gambeson in that antient-armour speech, not a brigandine plate-jacket and not an aketon under-name twin alone.

  from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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• Aketon is historically related to Leather.

  Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the aketon among quilted under-coats of soft defence beneath mail or plate. A named aketon in that antient-armour speech, not a gambeson as the fuller padded jacket alone and not a brigandine.

  from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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