patent leather

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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patent leath·er /ˌpeɪtnt ˈleðə◂ $ ˌpætnt ˈleðər/ noun [uncountable]  DCCTIthin shiny leather, usually black 漆皮 patent leather shoes 漆皮皮鞋

Examples from the Corpus

patent leather• a patent leather handbag• When found, she was wearing a pink floral dress, lilac tights, a white cardigan and black patent leather shoes.• And black patent leather tap shoes covered her most famous toes, which nobody realized yet were famous.• Footwear first, of course: Gucci patent leather, square-toed boots are in.• The woman stepped lightly away on her high-heeled, patent leather boots to her basket-work Mini parked beside the public convenience.• Marion looked down at her low-heeled patent leather pumps and sighed.• She noticed with disgust that there were several droplets of blood on the patent leather.• Pearlized white patent leather handbags are popular, says Aaronson.

patent leath·er nounChineseSyllable  

shiny thin usually Corpus black leather,

patent leather
patent leath‧er /ˌpeɪtnt ˈleðə◂ $ ˌpætnt ˈleðər/ noun [uncountable]
thin shiny leather, usually black:
    patent leather shoes

patent leatherBrE /ˌpeɪtnt ˈleðə(r)/ 🔊NAmE usually /ˈpætnt leðər/ 🔊, /ˌpeɪtnt ˈleðər/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a type of leather with a hard shiny surface, used especially for making shoes and bags 漆革；漆皮