buckskin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.
Noun[edit]
buckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins)
- The skin of a male deer, a buck.
- Clothing made from buckskin.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.
- Breeches made of buckskin.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- I have alluded to his buckskins.
- A grayish yellow in colour.
- buckskin:
- A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
- A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
- 1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War:
- Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.
Hyponyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the skin of a male deer, a buck
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clothing made from buckskin
breeches made of buckskin
a grayish yellow in colour
a soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin
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a person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war
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Adjective[edit]
buckskin (not comparable)
- Of a grayish yellow in colour.
Translations[edit]
of a grayish yellow in colour