Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Aluta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ALU'TA. Leather dressed with alum (alumen) in order to render it soft and pliable; whence the word is often used by the poets for a boot, shoe, purse, &c., made of such leather. Mart. xii. 26. Juv. Sat. xiv. 282.

2. A patch, or beauty spot for the face. Ovid. Art. Am. iii. 202.