suede

Borrowed from French gants de Suède (“gloves of Sweden”).

• IPA^(key): /sweɪd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /swed/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: swayed (except Scotland)

suede (usually uncountable, plural suedes)

1. A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur‎^[1]:

     “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Richard DeLongpre: Mmm, your belly skin is like suede.

     Jeremy DeLongpre: Thanks.

     Richard: Tough but soft, like a man.

suede (not comparable)

1. Made of suede.

• suede brush
• suedehead
• suedelike
• suede-shoe operator
• suede-shoe salesman
• suedette
• suedey

suede (third-person singular simple present suedes, present participle sueding, simple past and past participle sueded)

1. (transitive) To make (leather) into suede.
2. (transitive) To finish (fabric) by abrasion, giving it a fibrous surface.

• emerize

• suede on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• deuse