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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The skin of a male deer.
  2. n. A soft, grayish-yellow leather usually having a suede finish, once made from deerskins but now generally made from sheepskins.
  3. n. Clothing, especially breeches or shoes, made from buckskin.
  4. n. A person who wears buckskins, especially an American backwoodsman or soldier in the Revolutionary War.
  5. n. A horse of a grayish-yellow color.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The skin of a buck.
  2. n. A kind of soft leather of a yellowish or grayish color, made originally by treating deerskins in a peculiar way, but now usually prepared from sheepskins. In its preparation a great deal of manipulation is required, the softness which is its chief characteristic being produced by the use of either oil or brains in dressing it. It was formerly used for clothing, as by American Indians, frontiersmen, and soldiers, but is now used principally for thick gloves.
  3. n. plural Breeches made of buckskin.
  4. n. A person clothed in buckskin: a term applied to the American troops during the Revolutionary War.
  5. n. A horse of the color of buckskin.
  6. Of or pertaining to buckskin.
  7. Of the color of buckskin: used of a horse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The skin of a male deer, a buck.
  2. n. Clothing made from buckskin.
  3. n. A grayish yellow in colour.
  4. n. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
  5. n. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
  6. n. breeches made of buckskin.
  7. adj. Of a grayish yellow in colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The skin of a buck.
  2. n. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
  3. n. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
  4. n. Breeches made of buckskin.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin
  2. n. horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail

Examples

  • “I got waved down to an intertribal dance by some friendly old folks in buckskin, but I pretended they were waving at somebody else.”

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Empty Seats at the Pow Wow

  • “Radisson in buckskin jacket and moccasins, talking before the fire in St. James 'Palace of the Canadian wilderness, with Prince Rupert in lace and ruffles, and with sword on hip-the king of the coureurs de bois and the prince of cavaliers.”

    The Old Romance in Canada

  • “Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine.”

    The Shagganappi

  • “Peter, however, reassured them somewhat, for, although he was not clad in buckskin and feathers, he wore exquisitely beaded moccasins, a scarlet sash about his waist, a small owl feather sticking in his hat band, and his ears were pierced, displaying huge earrings of hammered silver.”

    The Shagganappi

  • “Most of them could speak a few words of English, but not so Little Wolf-Willow, who arrived from his prairie tepee dressed in buckskin and moccasins, a pretty string of white elks 'teeth about his throat, and his long, straight, black hair braided in two plaits, interwoven with bits of rabbit skin.”

    The Shagganappi

  • “Down the gang-plank a strange figure sauntered, clad in buckskin breeches suspended by one strap over a flannel shirt open at the throat; high-topped boots confined the breeches at the knee; a battered hat was pushed back from a rubicand face, and about his waist a belt bristled with pistols and bowie knives.”

    Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest

  • “Two big fellows, dressed in buckskin suits and wearing broad sombreros, who sat opposite, never removed their gaze from us.”

    Six Months in Mexico

  • “After come the lazadores, dressed in buckskin suits, elaborately trimmed with silver ornaments and broad, expensive sombreros.”

    Six Months in Mexico

  • “Tell the truth, you guys just really wanted to pretend to be Native American’s and dress up in buckskin didn’t you …”

    Think Progress » At event with a large number of ‘empty seats,’ Palin mocks the ‘little Twittering thing.’

  • “Patty was on the point of exclaiming that the buckskin was the very horse she would have to race, but instead she smiled: "But, if your horse started fresh from here, and even Vil Holland's horse had run clear from the mountains, this one could beat him to town, couldn't he?”

    The Gold Girl

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  1. leather
  1. mount
  1. saddle horse
  1. riding horse

same context (21)

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  1. deerskin
  2. tight-fitting
  3. suede
  4. doeskin
  1. corduroy
  2. sealskin
  3. woolen
  4. tweed
  1. velveteen
  2. flannel
  3. serge
  4. sheepskin
  1. baggy
  2. skin-tight
  3. broadcloth
  4. calico
  1. chain mail
  2. plaid
  3. leggings
  4. roan
  1. nylon

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  1. buckskin
  1. buck
  1. buckskins
  1. thumb stall
  1. tan

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