What is "leatherette"

Usage examples of "leatherette".

He slid inside and started the engine, careful to let the minimum amount of back and buttcheek come in contact with the blistering leatherette.

And afterwards, in a silent car filled with bitterness and unquenched basic needs, we would mistakenly turn off the main highway and get lost and end up in some no-hope hamlet with a name like Draino, Indiana, or Tapwater, Missouri, and get a room in the only hotel in town, the sort of run-down place where if you wanted to watch TV it meant you had to sit in the lobby and share a cracked leatherette sofa with an old man with big sweat circles under his arms.

Nine fifty-dollar bills, under a black leatherette appointment book issued as a gift by a drug company.

In my buttoned-up chef's coat, check pants, neckerchief and standard-issue leatherette knife roll-up, I arrived determined but full of attitude.

And he touched his leatherette ticket-folder and dreamed of topiary clipped into the shape of March Hares and Mad Hatters, of frogs in footman's livery and strident queens.

Wasn't no ferns or New Age music playing here, no chrome and red leatherette magnomachines or yuppie VR slant walkers, just racks and racks of iron--dumbbells, barbells--and benches and racks and a concrete floor with a few rubber pads on it.

He opened the razor's leatherette case: nickel-plate gleamed against a bed of violet velour.