buckskin

plural buckskins

1. countableuncountableThe skin of a male deer, a buck.
2. countableuncountableClothing made from buckskin.

   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.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

3. countableuncountableBreeches made of buckskin.

   I have alluded to his buckskins.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

4. countableuncountableA grayish yellow in colour.
5. countableuncountableA soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
6. countableuncountableA person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

   Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.

   1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War

7. countableuncountableA horse with a light yellowish-brown coat and black mane and tail.

   Edward's buckskin was feebly trying to roll, to clean the sweat off.

   1948, Dorothy M. Johnson, Beyond the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 126

1. not comparableOf a grayish yellow in colour.