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Word entry · 5 letters

suede

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"Soft leather"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /sweɪd/Part of speech nounSorted deesuStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (SUEDE).

Definitions

  1. Soft leather or fabric with a napped surface.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • “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.”
  • Richard DeLongpre: Mmm, your belly skin is like suede. Jeremy DeLongpre: Thanks. Richard: Tough but soft, like a man.

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