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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