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buckskin|ˈbʌkskɪn|
[f. buck n.1 + skin.]
1. The skin of a buck.
1433Test. Ebor. (1855) II. 31 Unum dublett coopertum cum bukskynnes. 1465in Ripon Ch. Acts 159 Unam longam tunicam de bukskynnes. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2124/4, 15 Buck-skins dry'd, not pared. 1707Ibid. No. 4344/4 For Sale by the Candle..9000 Carolina Buck-Skins. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 82 Buck Skins at 11s. 6d. each.
2. a. Leather made from the skin of a buck; also from sheepskin prepared in a particular way.
1804Huddesford Wiccam. Chaplet 140 Bold blades in buck-skin breeched. 1828Scott F.M. Perth I. 34 Willing to see you two as closely united together, as ever needle stitched buckskin. 1846–83R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs (1883) xlvi. 134 Buckskin's the only wear fit for the saddle. 1878Black Green Past. xiii. 100 The suit of grey buckskin which he wore.
b. attrib. and comb.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 79 In buck-skin cotes. 1660Pepys Diary 1 June, The fine pair of buckskin gloves. 1710Tatler No. 241 ⁋9 A Pair of Buck-Skin Breeches. 1753H. Walpole Corr. I. 198 A young squire booted and spurred and buckskin-breeched. 1824Cobbett Weekly Register 12 June 674 Priests..who never wear buckskin breeches, and go a fox-hunting. 1877J. Allen Amer. Bison 581 The buckskin suit of the Rocky Mountain hunter.
3. Breeches made of buckskin. (In first quot. possibly gloves or boots of that material.)
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. 315 My Lord paied to his cordwaner..for a payr bucskyns..xviij.d. a1658Cleveland News fr. Newcastle 120 [He]..in embroidered Buckskins blows his Nails. 1774Westm. Mag. II. 657 The honest buckskin..Our modern Nimrod turns to sattin breeches. 1851Kingsley Yeast ii. 34 A red coat and white buckskins.
†4. A nickname of the American troops during the Revolutionary war; hence, a native American.
1787Burns Amer. War, Cornwallis fought as long's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. 1800Weems Washington ii. (1877) 8 George Washington a buck skin !..impossible ! he was certainly an European. 1823Thacher Mil. Jrnl. 72 The burlesque epithet of Yankee from one party, and that of Buckskin from the other.
5. A kind of strong twill cloth.
1894Tailoring 3 Feb. 1/1 Coatings.—Black and Blue Serges, cut and covered in every size of twill,..Buckskins, 10s. 1895Oracle Encycl. I. 528/2 Buckskin, a strong twilled woollen fabric for trouserings. The web is usually about 27 inches wide, and when finished the pile or nap is so shorn that the texture is seen through it. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 216 Buckskin cloth..is a closely woven woollen cloth simulating buckskin.
Hence ˈbuckskinned a.
1829A. Fonblanque Eng. under Admin. (1837) I. 240 Yorkshire buckskinned 'Squires. 1884Joaquin Miller Mem. & Rime 107 A savage buckskinned delegate to Congress..from..Oregon. |