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napa leather

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables
na-pa leather
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of leather, noted for its soft feel, made from the skin of sheep or goats.

Etymology

The leather takes its name from Napa, California, where the process of making napa leather was created by Emanuel Manasse, a German tanner working for The Sawyer Tanning Company.

Inflected Forms

napa leathers (plural) nappa leather (alternative)

Questions

What does napa leather mean?
A type of leather, noted for its soft feel, made from the skin of sheep or goats.
Where does napa leather come from?
The leather takes its name from Napa, California, where the process of making napa leather was created by Emanuel Manasse, a German tanner working for The Sawyer Tanning Company.

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