From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpatent leatherpatent leath‧er /ˌpeɪtnt ˈleðə◂ $ ˌpætnt ˈleðər/ noun [uncountable] DCCTIthin shiny leather, usually black patent leather shoes
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. 