buckskin

 

From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck +‎ skin.

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buckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins)

1. The skin of a male deer, a buck.
2. 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.

3. 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.

4. A grayish yellow in colour.

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5. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
6. 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.

7. A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat.

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buckskin (not comparable)

1. Of a grayish yellow in colour.

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