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"'As you see,' said Redfern, 'the skin is healing—little inflammation: bone almost entirely covered. Earlier floggings had rendered it coriaceous. We treat with tepid sponging and wool-fat.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 327
Another (less grisly) usage note on durian.
What I like to do with words like this is spend a minute or two enumerating the different conceivable pronunciations, and then guessing which one is correct. I got this one right.
"He certainly has a private network of informants, some of them in France ... But he is a difficult, coriaceous animal and if this agent does not succeed quite soon, success is improbable..."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 61