Patent Leather Definition

pat'nt
noun
Leather with a hard, glossy, usually black finish: made by a process formerly patented.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Patent Leather

Noun

Singular:
patent leather
Plural:
patent leathers

Origin of Patent Leather

  • So called because it is made by a once-patented process

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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