saffian
English
Etymology
Russian сафья́н (safʹján)
Noun
saffian (countable and uncountable, plural saffians)
- A leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 6:
- One of the three volumes Cyby had brought was as large as the top of a small table […] ; from the arms impressed upon its saffian cover, I supposed it to be the history of some old noble family.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 6: