‖ yuft
(jʌft)
Also 9 youghten, jucten, juff, juft, youft.
[a. Russ. yuft{p}, yukht{p}, whence also G. juften, juchten.]
Russia leather (see Russia 1).
| 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Emp. III. 514 The chief products of the tanneries of this country..are the yufts. 1802–3 tr. Pallas's Trav. (1812) I. 45 Russian leather, or Youghten. 1853 Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 60 The Russians have long been possessed of a method of making a peculiar leather, called by them jucten, dyed red with the aromatic saunders wood. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Juff, Youft. |