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vegetan

vegetan

English

Noun

vegetan

  1. The common term for vegetable-tanned leather. This is typically cow skin tanned using tannins derived from plant materials rather than chemicals. Produces a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but is easily damaged by water without further treatment.
  2. A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.
    • 2006, "Eco hero: Galahad Clark", Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12, 2006
      Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,

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Spanish

Verb

vegetan

  1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of vegetar.
  2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present indicative form of vegetar.