buckskins

8.8

Trousers made from deer leather worn in old frontier clothes

noun
/ˈbʌkˌskɪnz/

Archaic

: pantalones de cuero de ciervo

The frontiersman wore buckskins and carried a powder horn on his belt.

Examples

In the film, the explorer was dressed in traditional buckskins and a coonskin cap.
The hunter's buckskins were well-crafted.
His buckskins were worn and stained from years of use.
He wore buckskins during the reenactment.
In the film, the explorer was dressed in traditional buckskins and a coonskin cap.
The frontiersman wore buckskins and carried a powder horn on his belt.
His buckskins were worn and stained from years of use.

Synonyms

britches

vsbuckskins

Informal

3 8.4

Loose trousers like old work pants

is a specific leather garment used in traditional or historical dress

Surface Forms

buckskin singular

buckskins plural

Morphology

buckskins = buckskin (transparent) = buckskin + s

A regular plural formed from the noun 'buckskin'; the meaning is directly predictable from the base word.

Etymology

Buckskins comes from buck ('male deer') and skin ('hide'), so it originally meant clothing made from deer hide and now refers to leather pants or breeches often worn as traditional frontier dress.