Cheverel vs Cheveril - What's the difference?
cheverel | cheveril |
Kid, as used to make leather.
Pliable as kid leather; elastic, flexible, usually with reference to someone's conscience.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.1:
*:Now were there any one of so tender or cheverell a conscience, to whome no cure might seeme worthy of so extreame a remedy, I should prise or regard him no whit the lesse. (obsolete) Soft leather made of kid skin.
(obsolete) Made of cheveril; pliant.