Naugahyde

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An artificial leather made with a knit fabric backing and PVC coating. uncountable

    "The floor was of plain yellow tile, the chairs and sofa of what looked like light green Naugahyde."

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"The floor was of plain yellow tile, the chairs and sofa of what looked like light green Naugahyde."

Etymology

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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