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(obsolete) Kid, as used to make leather.
comparative more cheverel, superlative most cheverel
(obsolete) Pliable as kid leather; elastic, flexible, usually with reference to someone's conscience. quotations
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.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.1