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buckskin

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buckskin
1. the skin of a male deer
2. a stiffly starched cotton cloth
3. a strong satin-woven woollen fabric
4. greyish-yellow


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No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one -- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy --a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Those buckskin legs and calves of legs I've seen in shop windows wouldn't compare at all.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally of buckskin, ornamented here and there with a feather.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
 
 
 
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