leatherette

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A type of fabric, often plastic, made to imitate the appearance of leather.

   “[T]he pink throats of gramophones opened their giant convolutions in a soundless chorus; or bicycles shining in neat ranks seemed to await the signal of an invisible starter; or tiers of fancy-goods in leatherette and paste and celluloid dangled their insidious graces; [...]”

2. isim 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.”