doeskin

English

Etymology

From doe +‎ skin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

1. (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
   • 1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha‎:

     He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum...

   • 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Lost Continent‎:

     A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs.

2. (countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.

   Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.

3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.

   Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

4. (uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
   • 1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10‎:

     In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.

Hyponyms

• skin