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hidebound (adj.)
1550s, from
hide
(n.1) + past tense of
bind
(v.). Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded c.1600.
