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deerskin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deerskin \Deer"skin`\, n.
The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.
--Hakluyt. Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (rfv-sense: English) Made from deer leather or hide. n. 1 (context uncountable English) leather made from deer hide. 2 (context countable English) The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer. 3 (context countable English) An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural.
WordNet
n. leather from the hide of a deer
Wikipedia
Deerskin is a dark fantasy novel by Robin McKinley, first published in 1993. It is based on an old French fairy tale by Charles Perrault called Peau d'âne (English translation: Donkeyskin). It was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
The book contains numerous adult themes including incest, rape, and miscarriage. It features McKinley's typical protagonist, the resourceful heroine overcoming psychological trauma, and her favored motif of the animal helper.
Usage examples of "deerskin".
While Abbot Henry silently fetched a brace of candlesticks from the nearest aumbry and invested them with fresh beeswax candles, Arnault and Ninian moved to the rear of the chapel, where Ninian proceeded to lay out several small items from a deerskin pouch at his girdle.
She noted that borrowed clothes were laid out: a woolen brat, a linen leine, a sturdy pair of knit hose and serviceable deerskin brogans.
Franklin wore a deerskin matchcoat borrowed from one of the Apalachee and beneath it a very plain waistcoat of linsey-woolsey with cloth-covered buttons.
Although much time was expended and much patience consumed before the confidence of their elders was gained, the work was finally successful, as will be seen particularly by the creation legend and the accompanying mythologic picture-writing on deerskin, which give an insight into the mode of thought of this people and a comprehensive idea of the belief respecting their genesis.
His tongue sought the taste of her, his hands lightly skimmed the peaks and valleys beneath her deerskin poncho and were gone before she could mouth the words to protest.
Arrhyna appeared, and on the instant Morrhyn saw she had awaited this visit: her hair shone a fiery red, falling loose over her shoulders, and she wore a gown of deerskin worked so soft it was almost white.
Then he pulled a strip of pliable deerskin, tapered at the ends with a bulge in the middle to hold stones for slinging, out of his waist thong, and pulled the soft leather through his hand, thinking.
Nookomis up-ended a deerskin bag and poured a mixture of dried fish pieces and manomin parched in deer grease onto three stiffened pieces of hide.
He was about to cry out, but the Onondaga turned and struck him such a violent blow with the butt of a pistol, snatched from under his deerskin tunic, that he fell senseless.
He was wearing a leather overshirt of deerskin and a pair of soft buckskin trousers.
They had one of the pyrographed deerskin field-maps spread on the table in front of them.
About four-thirty Christmas Eve I hung a small red cluster of teaberries on the deerskin door.
Eager to be rid of the soldier, Tobas headed directly for the nearest, a middle-aged man in green-dyed deerskin.
Kital wished to impress, and he did, for he was dressed in an ankle-length deerskin cloak that had been whitened with chalk and urine, then thickly sewn with rings of bronze that reflected the sun so that it seemed to glint when he moved forward to greet Hengall.
Their bodies were draped in fine red or blue blankets, and they wore leggins and moccasins of beautifully tanned deerskin.