buckskinned
7.3
Clothing or boots made from soft deer leather
- adjective
- /ˈbʌkˌskɪnd/
:
de cuero de ciervo
- "There's Jocko DeSam," said Morgan, pointing to a buckskinned trapper at the edge of one group.
Examples
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The cowboy wore a buckskinned jacket that looked great against the desert backdrop.
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She admired the buckskinned boots he had crafted from soft leather.
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In eerie light, a figure in frontier costume points a buckskinned arm past a parchment battle map, splashed red.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artist painted a portrait of a buckskinned Indian standing proudly beside a campfire.
Surface Forms
buckskinned positive
Morphology
Etymology
Buckskinned comes from buckskin, the leather made from a buck ('male deer') and its skin ('hide'), so to be buckskinned means 'wearing or made of buckskin leather'.
