buckskin

English

buckskins

Etymology

From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck +‎ skin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

   buckskin:  

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.

Hyponyms

• skin

Derived terms

• buckskinned

Translations

the skin of a male deer, a buck

• Apache:

  Western Apache: ibann

• German: Hirschleder (de) n
• Irish: craiceann fia m
• Mongolian: бугын арьс (bugyn arʹs)
• Navajo: abaní
• Russian: оле́нья шку́ра f (olénʹja škúra)

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

• Navajo: abaní

a person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} еленова кожа f (elenova koža)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ante (es) m, ^{(please verify)} piel de ante f
• Taos: ^{(please verify)} łúna

Adjective

buckskin (not comparable)

1. Of a grayish yellow in colour.

Translations

of a grayish yellow in colour

See also

• Appendix:Colors