leatherette
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5.2
- noun
- /ˌlɛðərˈɛt/
:
cuero sintético
- It's a black leatherette travel bag with a tartan design.
- leatherette seat
- leatherette booth
- leatherette banquette
These have these soft leatherette ear cushions.
- These have these soft leatherette ear cushions.
Examples
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Opened before him on the rug is a volume of blue leatherette.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her book had that pebbly leatherette navy-blue grain usually found on diaries and giveaway Bibles.
Fiction book (1998) -
I shrink down in my leatherette seat.
Fiction book (1991) -
These have these soft leatherette ear cushions.
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Russell and William sit in two large red-leatherette seats in the hotel lobby.
Fiction book (2000) -
Walter, just arriving, is carrying a leatherette satchel in one hand and a large plastic carrier in the other.
Fiction book (1998) -
I am an experienced seamstress, and I decided to use leatherette (pleather) on the outside.
Blog text (12) -
My father reached to the counter for a menu, a typed page under clear plastic, ringed in black leatherette.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Seagrave apartment is dirty and depressing, featuring cheap, cigarette-scarred leatherette furniture.
Fiction book (1996) -
The green room was small, with an old leatherette couch and yellowing walls.
Synonyms
4
4.4
A man-made material that looks and feels like leather
1
3.5
A material made to look and feel like real leather
Covered with a leather-like material used on furniture and jackets
A strong, light man-made material that looks like leather
How Like Leather
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Leatherette combines leather and the ending -ette, which means 'small' or 'like'. So leatherette is a material made to be 'like' leather but not real leather, often cheaper.