A sturdy fabric woven to resemble or imitate beaver fur, used for making clothing or upholstery; a manufactured cloth resembling beaver.
Compound of beaver and a suffix suggesting textile type (possibly from French teine or similar), or beaver plus a variant of -teen. Refers to a woven fabric product created to mimic beaver fur.
Beaverteen is part of a whole family of textile names that tried to capture luxury materials cheaply—like velveteen mimicking velvet, or corduroy mimicking cord—and shows how industrial manufacturing democratized fashion by letting ordinary people wear fabrics that looked like aristocratic materials.
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