[F. chevrette (= Pr. cabreta, It. capretta, dim. of chèvre, L. capra she-goat.]
† 1. A machine for raising guns or mortars into their carriages. Obs.
1731–6. in Bailey.
1772. Simes, Mil. Guide.
2. A thin kind of goat-skin leather used for gloves.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal., 37. Kid and chevrette leather … is prepared in the dressing yards at Grenoble, Fontaine, and Ottignies, near Brussels. The supplies of … chevrette, or young goat skins, for stouter gloves, from Saxony, Bavaria, and Bohemia.
1888. The Lady, 25 Oct., 378. Tan, chevrette, and silk gloves.
