leather-hard
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of leather-hard
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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The answer: Each sculpture is built up slab by slab, then allowed to dry to a "leather-hard" state.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2011
The outline of the design was first etched lightly into the leather-hard clay with the finest point.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
"Tea turns mayte leather-hard an' plagues the stomach cruel, as I knaws to my cost."
From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden
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