Naugahyde

[ naw-guh-hahyd ]

Trademark.

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

Example Sentences

With its onetime Naugahyde booths with tape on the tears and sawdust on the concrete floor, Cook’s Corner managed to hold on to its rustic if divey character despite the housing tracts that had sprung up around it, what Day calls the “red fungus tide” — the omnipresent red tile roofs sheltering the homes of flatlanders not far away, some of whom might have lobbied for the bar to be closed because of its loud music and out-of-town patrons.

From Los Angeles Times

Leather or naugahyde are durable choices for midcentury-modern decor.

From Seattle Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

It may seem that you remember it from television, even though the event took place before you were born, or that you were there in that room full of Naugahyde and red shag carpet, even though that particular Christmas antedated your arrival on this planet by a decade or more.

From Washington Post

When he first moved to Miami, he acquired a cherry-red 1968 Cadillac DeVille, with a white top and brown Naugahyde seats.

From The New Yorker