Coriaceous (adj)
kor-ee-ay-shus
of or like leather.
Coriaceous was first recorded in 1665–75 and comes from the Late Latin word coriāceus, which means “leathern.” The related word corium, used in the fields of anatomy and zoology, means “skin.”
Example sentences
“Books bound with coriaceous materials.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
