efflower

Verb

1. To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.
   • Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon...
   • In the pregnant bounds / Of delicatest breath, that but efflowers the ear / And lapses into nothingness[.] - 1913, John Galen Howard, “From olive groves of academe”, in University of California Chronicle, page 101:
   • Chamois leather—The skin of the Alpine goat of that name, which has been “efflowered” or deprived of the epidermis. - 1972, Sophia Frances Ann Caulfeild, Blanche C. Saward, Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework:...