suede glove
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- noun
- /sweɪd ɡlʌv/
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guante de ante
- "Fancy-pants officers with their suede gloves can order you to march to hell and gone, but they don't know anything about what it's like to fight once you've got there."
Examples
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A cream suede glove stitched in black slides over his hand.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her daughter stands there looking doleful, the suede gloves drooping from her clenched fist.
Fiction book (1994) -
So she returns to the glove counter, the scene of the crime, and to the pile of beautiful vanilla-suede gloves still heaped on the counter, and again Edie takes two enormous handfuls and presses them to her face.
Fiction book (1994) -
She wore a pair of suede gloves to keep her hands warm during the chilly evening.
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The artist preferred using a suede glove while painting to avoid leaving fingerprints.
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He carefully placed his suede gloves on the table, making sure not to damage them with rough surfaces.
How Soft
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a glove made from suede' is directly and compositionally derived from 'suede' (napped leather) + 'glove' (hand covering). The material+object compound pattern is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Suede glove is named for the soft, fuzzy leather called suede and the word glove for a hand cover. Imagine a velvety hand cover that feels 'soft', keeps your hand 'warm' and gives a good 'grip', and you can see why the phrase means a glove made from that material.