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suede

noun
🔊/sweɪd/
🔊/sweɪd/
 [uncountable]
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  1. soft leather with a surface like velvet on one side, used especially for making clothes and shoes绒面革；仿麂皮
    • a suede jacket绒面革夹克
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySuede is used before these nouns:
    • boot
    • jacket
    • shoe
    • …
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French (gants de) Suède ‘(gloves of) Sweden’.