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".
Noun edit
Naugahyde (uncountable)
- 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.