"leathern" meaning in English

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          "word": "leathern conveniency"
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          "ref": "1806 [c. 20 BCE], Robert Arrol, transl., Cornelii Neoptis Vitæ Excellentium Imperatorum, translation of De viris illustribus by Cornelius Nepos:",
          "text": "For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]",
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          "text": "He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.",
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Those were the Real Conquests’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 263:",
          "text": "Still more pleased was he when, inverting a leathern pouch over the end of the reed, and so filling it with the gas, he was able to send it soaring up into the air.",
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          "ref": "1913 December – 1914 March, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “With the Yellow Men”, in The Warlord of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published September 1919, →OCLC, page 164:",
          "text": "Except for his leathern harness, covered thick with jewels and metal, […]",
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        "Made of leather."
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        "(dated) Made of leather."
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