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suede - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

suede (usually uncountable, plural suedes)

  • A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories.
    • ✤ “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”1
    • ✤ Richard DeLongpre: Mmm, your belly skin is like suede.2
  • ✤ Jeremy DeLongpre: Thanks.
  • ✤ Richard: Tough but soft, like a man.

Adjective

suede (not comparable)

  • Made of suede.

Verb

suede (third-person singular simple present suedes, present participle sueding, simple past and past participle sueded)

  • (transitive) To make (leather) into suede.
  • (transitive) To finish (fabric) by abrasion, giving it a fibrous surface.

Etymology

Borrowed from French gants de Suède (“gloves from Sweden”). Doublet of Swede.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /sweɪd/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /swed/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -eɪd
  • Homophone: swayed (except Scotland)

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur ‎: ↩

  2. 2011 Allen Gregory, “Pilot” (season 1, episode 1): ↩

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