suede

See also: Suède and suède

English

a suede jacket

Etymology

Borrowed from French gants de Suède (“gloves of Sweden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sweɪd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /swed/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: swayed (except Scotland)

Noun

suede (usually uncountable, plural suedes)

1. A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur‎^[1]:

     “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Richard DeLongpre: Mmm, your belly skin is like suede.

     Jeremy DeLongpre: Thanks.

     Richard: Tough but soft, like a man.

Translations

type of leather

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: զամշ (hy) (zamš)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: велур (bg) (velur)
• Catalan: serratge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仿麂皮 (fǎngjǐpí), 麂皮 (zh) (jǐpí)

• Esperanto: svedledo
• Finnish: mokka (fi), mokkanahka (fi)
• French: suède (fr) m, cuir suédé m, daim (fr) m
• Galician: camurza f
• Georgian: ზამში (zamši)
• German: Wildleder (de) n, Veloursleder (de) n
• Greek: καστόρι (el) n (kastóri)
• Hebrew: זמש (he) m (zamsh)
• Hungarian: velúrbőr (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: svaeid f, craiceann fiaghabhair m
• Italian: camoscio (it) m, pelle scamosciata f
• Japanese: スエード (ja) (suēdo)
• Korean: 스웨이드 (seuweideu)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: papahunga
• Persian: جیر (fa) (jir)
• Polish: zamsz (pl) m
• Portuguese: camurça (pt) f
• Russian: за́мша (ru) f (zámša)
• Spanish: gamuza (es) f
• Swedish: mocka (sv) c
• Tibetan: སྐྱི་པགས (skyi pags)
• Turkish: süet (tr)
• Welsh: swêd m

Adjective

suede (not comparable)

1. Made of suede.

Derived terms

• suede brush
• suedehead
• suedelike
• suede-shoe operator
• suede-shoe salesman
• suedette
• suedey

Translations

made of suede

• Bulgarian: велурен (veluren)
• French: de suède, de cuir suédé, de daim
• Italian: scamosciato (it)
• Polish: zamszowy (pl)
• Russian: за́мшевый (ru) (zámševyj)
• Turkish: podösüet (tr)

Verb

suede (third-person singular simple present suedes, present participle sueding, simple past and past participle sueded)

1. (transitive) To make (leather) into suede.
2. (transitive) To finish (fabric) by abrasion, giving it a fibrous surface.

See also

• emerize

Further reading

• suede on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• deuse