Naugahyde

English

Alternative forms

• naugahyde, naugahide

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.

   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.

Derived terms

• Nauga
• nauga

 

See also

• Corinthian leather
• latex
• nitrile
• PVC
• rubber
• vinyl