a. [f. L. coriāce-us leathern, f. corium skin, hide, leather: see -ACEOUS.]
1. Resembling leather in texture, appearance, etc.; leathery. Chiefly used in Nat. Hist.
1674. Phil. Trans., IX. 87. A certain fungus of Sicily, with a blewish pulp, and a coriaceous shell.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 363. An inflammatory and coreaceous Thickness of the Blood.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxv. 354. The shell of the legume being coriaceous or leathery.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 442. The middle part is coriaceous and the margin membranous.
1869. Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 184. Common Ivy…. with coriaceous, shining leaves.
2. Made of leather, leathern. rare, affected.
1824. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), II. 45/1. To invest with these coriaceous integuments [Hessian boots] the leg of a liege subject at York.
1849. E. E. Napier, Excurs. S. Africa, II. 136. A sight of the Kaffir, while enveloped in his coriaceous covering, will no less call to recollection those old Etruscan sculptures, similarly draped.
