box calf


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box calf

n.
Calfskin treated with chromium salts and having square markings on the grain.
[After Joseph Box, a 19th-century London bootmaker.]
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box calf

n
(Tanning) black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
[C20: named after Joseph Box, London shoemaker]
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Noun1.box calf - black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts
calfskin, calf - fine leather from the skin of a calf
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