box calf

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   black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts

   Broadercalf

Questions about box calf

What does box calf mean?

box calf means "black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts".

Is box calf a common word?

box calf is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.