ppl. a. [f. TAW v.1 + -ED1.] Made, as white leather, by the process of tawing. Also transf. (cf. tanned).

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1545.  Rates of Customs, b iv. Graye tawed, the tymber vi. s. viii. d.

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1563.  Mirr. Mag., Induct., xxxix. With tawed handes, and hard ytanned skyn.

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1642.  T. Lechford, Plain Dealing (1867), 115. For the Winter they have boots, or a kind of laced tawed-leather stockins.

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1711.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4862/4. Hides and Skins, Tanned, Tawed or Dress’d.

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1852.  Morfit, Tanning & Currying (1853), 412. The tawed leather is the raw skin combined with subchloride of aluminium.

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1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 150/2.

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