suede.

Leather with a soft, fine-textured surface created on its inner side.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• suede jacket
• suede lining

On the page

Rain left dark spots on the suede jacket.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.