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Meaning of vegetan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.
  2. A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.

Examples

“Vegetan is a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but it is easily damaged by water without further treatment.”
“Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Vegetarian vegetarian egg Vegetarianism vegetarianist vegetarianization vegetarianness

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