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cheveril (SHEV-uh-ruhl) - n., (obs.) soft leather made from kid skin. adj., made from cheveril, pliant.
Very much obsolete, but it still appears in dictionaries because (surprise!) it's used by Shakespeare a couple different times as a metaphor for something elastic: "Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad." (His father, note, was a glover by trade.) (R&J ii 4). From Old French chevrel (modern form chevreau), kid/young goat, diminutive of chevre, goat, from Latin capra.
---L.
Very much obsolete, but it still appears in dictionaries because (surprise!) it's used by Shakespeare a couple different times as a metaphor for something elastic: "Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad." (His father, note, was a glover by trade.) (R&J ii 4). From Old French chevrel (modern form chevreau), kid/young goat, diminutive of chevre, goat, from Latin capra.
---L.
