Naugahyde

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Etymology[edit]

Marketing coinage of the 1930s, from Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was first produced, and hide; it was humorously marketed as being the skin of an animal called a "Nauga".

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Naugahyde (uncountable)

  1. An artificial leather made with a knit fabric backing and PVC coating.
    Hypernym: pseudoleather
    Coordinate term: see pseudoleather § Hyponyms
    • 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa:
      The floor was of plain yellow tile, the chairs and sofa of what looked like light green Naugahyde.

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