Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Imitation leather.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Cloth or paper made to look like leather; imitation leather.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of fabric, often plastic, made to imitate the appearance of leather.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fabric made to look like leather
Etymologies
- leather + -ette; originally a trademark that has since been genericized (Wiktionary)
- Originally a trademark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Our group took over two of the low couch/benches is it called a leatherette? on either side of a small cocktail table near the front, and about two steps away from the actual bar.”
“Russia, and morocco -- to which may be added of recent years, buckram, duck, linoleum, and the imitations of leather, such as leatherette and morocco paper, and of parchment.”
“Around the back, is the classic "leatherette" cover and a 5 MP camera with flash.”
“Around the back, is the classic "leatherette" cover and a 5-megapixel camera with flash.”
“..i remember i once had a kinky girlfriend named 'leatherette'...”
The Way We Were: The Future's So "Meh" I Gotta Wear Pom Poms
“The black leatherette barstools look like refugees from the 1970s.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Cheers Leader
“There is just a brief wait in the VIP lounge, with its white leatherette sofas and The Naked Gun playing on a flat-screen television, before you are whisked into your limousine, the usual hassles of passport control handled by friendly officials.”
The Guardian: The strange and evil world of Equatorial Guinea
“And it has to be said that my test car, a 2.5 SEL, was a pretty stout deal for $30,665, including a six-speed Tiptronic automatic, Bluetooth, navi, a big sunroof, heated leatherette seats and an ear-crunching Fender co-branded audio system.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cost-Cutting Done (a Little More) Right
“Volkswagen My test car, a 2.5 SEL, was a pretty stout deal for $30,665, including a six-speed Tiptronic automatic, Bluetooth, navi, a big sunroof, heated leatherette seats and an ear-crunching Fender co-branded audio system.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leatherette’.
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Faux Leather
Pleather by any other name...
pleather, artificial leather, vegan leather, leatherette, faux leather, naugahyde, patent leather, vinyl, vegetan, lorica, birko-flor, birkibuc and 20 more...
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-ette
diminutive; female; substitute
dinette, suffragette, leatherette, baguette, bachelorette, brochette, casette, croquette, etiquette, gazette, launderette, leaflette and 2 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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Words that are also excellent band na...
I'm not going to say I'm the worst guitarist in the world; I'm probably only the 3rd or 4th worst. But I'm great at naming bands. It's kind of a bummer -- I have this hidden talent for band naming,...
kung fu, cherry bomb, ped, frowned upon, huarache, tutu, sauselito, phantom power, magnetic north, arugula, ectomorph, scone and 13 more...
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