Quir"boil*ly` (?), n. [OE. cuir bouilli.]

Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.

[Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly."

Chaucer.

 

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