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buckskins

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buck·skin  (bkskn)
n.
1.
a. The skin of a male deer.
b. A soft, grayish-yellow leather usually having a suede finish, once made from deerskins but now generally made from sheepskins.
2. buckskins Clothing, especially breeches or shoes, made from buckskin.
3. A person who wears buckskins, especially an American backwoodsman or soldier in the Revolutionary War.
4. A horse of a grayish-yellow color.
buckskin adj.
buckskins [ˈbʌkˌskɪnz]
pl n
(Clothing & Fashion) (in the US and Canada) breeches, shoes, or a suit of buckskin
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.buckskins - breeches made of buckskin
breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers - trousers ending above the knee
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one


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A VERY stout, puffy man, in buckskins and Hessian boots, with several immense neckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days) was reading the paper by the fire when the two girls entered, and bounced off his arm-chair, and blushed excessively, and hid his entire face almost in his neckcloths at this apparition.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
There is no beau whom it takes four men at once to shake into his buckskins, or who goes to see all the executions, or who is troubled with the self-reproach of having once consumed a pea.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
But who shall tell the joy of the next morning, when the church bells were ringing a merry peal, and old Benjy appeared in the servants' hall, resplendent in a long blue coat and brass buttons, and a pair of old yellow buckskins and top-boots which he had cleaned for and inherited from Tom's grandfather, a stout thorn stick in his hand, and a nosegay of pinks and lavender in his buttonhole, and led away Tom in his best clothes, and two new shillings in his breeches-pockets?
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
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