pleather

Blend of plastic +‎ leather.

• Rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)

pleather (usually uncountable, plural pleathers)

1. Faux leather, usually of polyurethane.

   Hypernym: pseudoleather

   Coordinate term: see pseudoleather § Hyponyms

   • 1983, Elizabeth Bucar, Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, page 168:

     From the black, belted fur vest and turban-style headgear on the left, to the perforated pleather jacket with gold studs in the middle, to the white shift and black caplet punctuated with ...