leatherettes
leatherettes is the plural of leatherette.
Meaning of leatherette
Noun (1)
leatherette (countable and uncountable, plural leatherettes)
- A type of fabric, often plastic, made to imitate the appearance of leather.
- Many attempts have been made to supply a material to take the place of leather on cheap books, but hitherto nothing has been quite successful. [...] Such a material has apparently appeared in the form of "Leatherette," which is a kind of felted paper, very tough, the same colour throughout, and...1875 May 4, “Leatherette”, in The Bookseller: A Newspaper of British and Foreign Literature, […], number CCX, London: Printed b John Ogden & Co., […], for the proprietor, Joseph Whitaker, […], →ISSN...
Noun (2)
leatherette (plural leatherettes)
- A person, especially a woman, who dresses in leather or imitation leather.
- The NYU [New York University] tarts and the club slime, the art holes and the once-a-week bridge-and-tunnel leatherettes, the spikes and the usual dregs and walking garbage, Eel was giving them all the hiss.1994, George Dawes Green, chapter 27, in The Caveman’s Valentine, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN; ebook edition, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, March 2001, →ISBN
Questions about leatherettes
- What is leatherettes the plural of?
- Leatherettes is the plural of leatherette.
Words near leatherettes in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: leatherettes (page history and authors); leatherette (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “leatherettes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/leatherettes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.