(=thick and dry)· a lean man with leathery skin and sea-blue eyes
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►skin
· He gave the appearance of a leathery skin, thick neck, imperviousness to any delicacy.· Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?· He was about fifty, Dexter supposed, with great soulful eyes and brown leathery skin.· Older men and women with tanned, leathery skin power-walk.· The resulting hybrid grows like its tomato parent hut develops a tough leathery skin.· His large head looked ancient with its thin white hair, grizzly beard, hooked nose, red eyes, leathery skin.· Sea-weed and patches of dark, leathery skin clung here and there to the bleached bone.
hard and stiff like leather, rather than soft or smooth: her leathery brown skin