cuir-bouilli
English
Noun
cuir-
bouilli
(
uncountable
)
Alternative form of
cuir bouilli
.
1909
, Charles Henry Ashdown,
European Arms & Armor
, page
65
:
Cuir-bouilli
was leather
softened
by
boiling
(generally in
oil
), and
stamped
or moulded into a definite
form
when in that
condition
; upon
drying
it became
intensely
hard
and
tough
.