buckskin

Meanings

Noun

• The skin of a male deer, a buck.
• Clothing made from buckskin.
• Breeches made of buckskin.
• A grayish yellow in colour.
• A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
• A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

Adjective

• Of a grayish yellow in colour.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• skin

Origin

• From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.