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suede
(sweɪd, Fr. sɥɛd)
Also suède.
[a. F. (gants de) Suède (gloves of) Sweden.]
1. Orig. in suede gloves, gloves made of undressed kid-skin; hence suede is used for the material and the colour of it. Now also applied to other kinds of leather finished to resemble undressed kid-skin; also an article, usu. a shoe, made of suede.
1859Habits of Gd. Society iv. 178 Soft gloves of the kind termed gants de suède [misprinted gants de siècle].
1884Health Exhib. Catal. 37 Kid and Suède gloves made in their manufactories at Paris, Grenoble and Brussels. 1888Daily News 23 April 6/4 A girl in a well-made gown of pale suède silk, striped with openwork. 1894Ibid. 22 Nov. 8/1 Now, suèdes and silk gloves are permitted, and in a couple of months are succeeded by French kid. 1923[see sand n.2 1 i]. 1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 211/1 Suede.., leather, usually calf, finished by special process, with flesh side buffed on emery wheel to produce napped, velvety surface. 1968V. Canning Melting Man viii. 237 The only spare shoes were a pair of ginger suèdes. 1970Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 14 Ankle-length, shiny, wet-look coats, suèdes and leathers were often trimmed with fur. 1975C. Calasibetta Fairchild's Dict. Fashion 324/2 Suede, leather, usually lambskin, doeskin, or splits of cowhide..that has been buffed on the flesh side to raise a slight nap. 1982T. Heald Masterstroke v. 103 A heavy dew underfoot..soaked through Bognor's suedes, moistening his socks.
2. attrib. and Comb., as suede-coloured, suede-gloved, suede-like adjs.; suede brush, a brush with which to brush suede; suede cloth = suedette; suede-footed a. = suede-shoed adj. below; suedehead slang (see quot. 1970); suede shoe, a shoe made with a suede upper; chiefly used attrib. to denote: (a) resemblance to the rough texture of suede; (b) fig., something which displays a spurious smartness (U.S. colloq.); suede-shoed a., wearing suede shoes.
1951Catal. of Exhibits, South Bank Exhib., Festival of Britain 30/1 *Suede brush; Federation of British Rubber Manufacturers Association. 1967‘K. O'Hara’ Unknown Man ix. 81 A rubber suede-brush she used to buff the key-case.
1930Daily Express 30 July 5/4 *Suede cloth, which made its real appearance in furnishing last year. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. j5/2 (Advt.), Soft supple suedecloth is in several styles.
1897Daily News 17 April 6/6 A visiting costume in *suède-coloured cashmere.
1938J. W. Day Dog in Sport iv. 64 It will take many generations of stupid women in Bayswater and *suède-footed young men in Kensington to ruin the character of this eminently sensible working dog. 1979― in East Anglian Mag. Aug. 531/2 None of your suede-footed, whey-faced, sniffling little intellectuals.
1981J. Johnston Christmas Tree 121 Her *suede-gloved hands clasped on her knee.
1970Time 8 June 37 The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers—with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a trifle longer, they refer to themselves as *suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorising such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. 1974P. Cave Mama (new ed.) iv. 25 The suedehead kids weren't expecting any ‘bovver’.
1971Country Life 28 Oct. 1107/1 When some browsing animal blunders against them bursting their [sc. the puffballs’] *suede-like skin.
1952News (San Francisco) 27 Feb. 10/1 (heading) ‘*Suede-shoe boys’ renew racket here. Homeowners warned on repair work. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 29 Chronic bronco was reserved for nicotined oldsters with suede-shoe lungs. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 1b/6 There are also a lot more ‘pseudo⁓high rollers’ in Phoenix, too, which is Mano's polite description of a phony. ‘Suede shoe types,’ he calls them. 1980D. Marlowe Rich Boy from Chicago iv. 52 He edited the college magazine (pre-Beat poetry, suede-shoe satire).
1938New Statesman 21 May 863/2 The abusive semi-illiterate or the sleek, shinily tailored, down-at-heel, *suède-shoed play-boy, who hawks inferior goods on their doorstep. |