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/ɛˈflaʊɚ/ · verb
(rare) To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife..
Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam.
In the pregnant bounds / Of delicatest breath, that but efflowers the ear / And lapses into nothingness[.]
Chamois leather—The skin of the Alpine goat of that name, which has been “efflowered” or deprived of the epidermis.
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Efflower means (rare) To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife..
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Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam.
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