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/rˈəʃə lˈɛðər/ Listen

Russia leather

noun

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

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... too ready and eager to break away and go gathering goat-feathers. If it had not been for that I might be a millionaire or the President of the United States or the leading American Author, bound in Red Russia leather. I might have been a Set of Books, like Sir Walter Scott or Dickens or Balzac, and when people passed my house the natives would say, "No, that isn't the city hall or the court-house; that's where Butler ...

— Goat-Feathers • Ellis Parker Butler

... the girl now seated herself, on a bench of polished teak, from Mindanao. And, turning to her father, who had sunk down in his favorite easy-chair of Russia leather, she asked with ...

— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... dark-coloured objects, such as the bindings of books, Russia leather, blotting-cases, leathern bags, &c., the picture must be previously covered with a mixture of opaque white varnish, taking care not to pass beyond the outline of the design. On the following day, proceed according to the instructions given ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... Russia leather portfolio, which had once been red, but which time and use had turned black. It ...

— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau

... club chair, covered with red Russia leather and gently inclined his head in response to Heideck's ...

— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann