doeskin

plural doeskins

1. uncountableLeather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.

   A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs.

   1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Lost Continent

   1 more example

   He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum...

   1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha

2. countableThe hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.

   Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.

3. countablein pluralA glove made of doeskin leather.

   Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

4. uncountableA very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.

   In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.

   1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10