buckskin

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It was a bit of buckskin, and in the buckskin was a little heap of raw gold Chapter XI Seeking Alan Howard got a lantern from the wagon and said briefly to Sandy Weaver: 'Show me the place.'

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  1. noun The skin of a male deer.
  2. noun A soft, grayish-yellow leather usually having a suede finish, once made from deerskins but now generally made from sheepskins.
  3. noun Clothing, especially breeches or shoes, made from buckskin.

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  • Moccasins were of beaded deerskin; the trousers were buckskin, the blouse of doe, beaded and fringed. —  018 - The Squeaking Goblin
  • I always kept it rolled up in a piece of buckskin, and when unrolled it would hang down to my waist There was a number of young ladies in the train, and they were not long in learning that I was the most bashful person in the crowd, and they commenced trying to interest me in conversation. —  Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains
  • In the blue it makes the best buckskin, and is, therefore, most valuable when obtained in autumn The fawns of this species are beautiful little creatures; they are fawn-coloured, and showered all over with white spots which disappear towards the end of their first summer, when they gradually get into the winter grey The American deer is a valuable animal. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • But we knew it was not that; we knew it was the body of a man dressed in brown buckskin--the body of the earless trapper! —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
  • Moreover, the buckskin-- dressed Indian-fashion--was speedily casting the water; it would soon drip dry; or even if wet, would scarcely be observed under such a light The spot where I had "landed" chanced to be one of the least conspicuous in the whole area of the camp. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
 

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  1. from buck + skin; = Icelandic bukkaskinn = Danish bukkeskind.
 

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