vegetan means vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
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- Vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.“Vegetan is a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but it is easily damaged by water without further treatment.”
- A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.“Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,”