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🧥 Soft yellow leather 🐎 Yellowish horse
buckskin

buckskin

1 7.9
A horse with a light yellowish coat and dark mane and tail
  • noun
  • /ˈbʌkˌskɪn/
translation icon : caballo de color dun
  • The animals shifted in unison like a drill team, first downhill, then regrouping toward them, led by a buckskin stallion.
  • buckskin horse

Examples

  • "Grinning, Olivia touched her moccasined heels to her buckskin gelding."

    Fiction book (2001)

  • I think the worst, though, was when my raven was riding my big buckskin mare bareback in one of the irrigated fields along with her little sister on another horse.

    Blog text (27)

  • That one in the white buckskin, I'll never forget him.

    The Unforgiven (1960)

  • By God, I think I'm just gonna trade you that fine brown horse for your buckskin.

    Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

  • Yeah, and he was riding a little buckskin mare.

    Red River (1948)

  • Two minutes later, Pandora trotted the buckskin gelding into the scrubby field southeast of the fair.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Jerking his buckskin gelding's head around, my father rode off, roping my horse around the neck and tying him close to his own larger mount.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The buckskin horse walked gracefully across the pasture, showcasing its striking color and dark mane.

  • Morgan reined in his buckskin horse as he approached the fence to greet his friends.

  • The cowboy admired the buckskin stallion, noting its light yellowish-dun coat and strong build.

Synonyms

dun
vsbuckskin
1 9.9

A horse with a dull brown-grey coat and darker mane and tail

is lighter and yellowish rather than dull brownish grey

Surface Forms

buckskin singular
buckskins plural

Morphology

buckskin = buckskin (opaque) = buck + skin

If the adjective 'buckskin' is known, using it as a noun for a horse of that color is partly guessable, but the omitted idea 'horse' is not fully explicit.

Etymology

Buckskin for a horse is named after the leather buckskin because the horse's pale yellow coat looks like 'deer skin'. That's why a buckskin horse is a light yellowish color with a dark mane and tail.