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cuir

leather

noun KWEER Less Common
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Also means

hide (animal skin)

Usage Note

Cuir refers both to tanned leather goods and to the raw animal hide. The phrase veste en cuir ('leather jacket') is ubiquitous in everyday French. In phonetics, un cuir also names a faulty liaison where a speaker wrongly inserts a /t/ sound between two words.

Examples

"Il porte une ceinture en cuir."

Natural Translation

He wears a leather belt.

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