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  • A trademark for an artificial leather made of vinyl-coated fabric.

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  • noun trademark An artificial leather made with a knit fabric backing and PVC coating.

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Marketing coinage of the 1930s, from Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was first produced, and hide; it was humorously marketed as being the skin of an animal called a "Nauga".

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