Naugahyde

American  

[naw-guh-hahyd] / ˈnɔ gəˌhaɪd /

Trademark.

1. a brand of strong vinyl-coated fabric made to look like leather and used for upholstery, luggage, etc.

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Example Sentences

Step inside the artist’s 1965 magenta pickup truck, with its blue Naugahyde interior and wimpy-sounding horn.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2020

Angie Wang was slouched in a black Naugahyde booth in the depths of a Hollywood bar called Three Clubs.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2018

Naugahyde is not made from the hide of naugas.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2017

In the club’s Tap Room, a Naugahyde shrine to the butter pat and the lemon wedge, Irving ordered a salmon salad.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 14, 2015

Hugh fell back in the thinly stuffed torn red Naugahyde bench seat and gulped from his water glass.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn