Plural of leather; material made from animal hides that have been treated and tanned, or clothing made from this material such as jackets and pants.
From Old English 'lether,' from Proto-Germanic 'lethraną,' ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to split' or 'to separate,' referring to the process of treating hide. The word has remained essentially unchanged for over 1,500 years.
Leather is one of humanity's oldest technologies—humans were tanning hides over 100,000 years ago, and Medieval knights relied on leather armor as much as metal, yet we still use identical basic tanning methods from the Bronze Age.
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