Naugahyde

English

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".

Noun

Naugahyde (uncountable)

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