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Horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail
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buckskin
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Buckskin (1 April 1973–1995) was a French-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . Unraced as a two-year-old, he was trained in France in 1976 and 1977 before being transferred to race the United Kingdom in 1978 and 1979. A specialist stayer, he overcame ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buckskin \Buck"skin`\, n. The skin of a buck. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A minute Rainbow in a cowgirl's hat, fringed buckskin skirt and tiny spurred western boots. ▪ Gary is wearing a pair of jeans, a buckskin jacket decorated with porcupine quills, and his elaborate necklace. ▪ The eighteenth century ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of a grayish yellow in colour. n. 1 The skin of a male deer, a buck. 2 Clothing made from buckskin. 3 A grayish yellow in colour. 4 A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. 5 A person clothed in buckskin, particularly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "skin of a buck," from buck (n.1) + skin (n.). Meaning "leather made from buckskin" was in use by 1804. The word was a nickname for Continental troops in the American Revolution.
Usage examples of buckskin.
Chancellor announced that each inceptor would be required to pay the ordinary fee of thirty shillings and a pair of buckskin gloves for each bedel, or, in lieu of gloves, five shillings to be divided among the bedels.
Furs unpacked, there stalked among the tents great sachems glorious in robes of painted buckskin garnished with wampum, Indian children stark naked, young braves flaunting and boastful, wearing headdresses with strings of eagle quills reaching to the ground, each quill signifying an enemy taken.
They laid the woman down on a blanket, and covered her with her buckskin skirt, which Cissy found in a heap nearby.
Crope had not wanted to take it, yet Hadda had grasped his buckskin pants as he set her down on the wet, muddy ground above the pipe.
Charley had been wearing were now discarded for new, and sealskin boots were now replaced by buckskin moccasins and moleskin leggings.
His face, neck, and forearms had paled over the winter, but were still darker than the flesh of back and shouldersand a faint line still lingered round his waist, demarcating the soft buckskin color of his torso from the startling paleness of his backside.
He unbuttoned his cotton shirt and ripped it off, replacing it with the buckskin.
Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring.
Here I filled the large saddlebags made of buckskin with tins of beef, a couple more bottles of beer and a packet of tandstickor matches which I was fortunate enough to find.
Decimo Tercio, with his buckskin suit and his metal shoes, was something different.
Decimo Tercio, dwelling in particular upon the peculiarity of his garb of buckskin trousers and coat, and his one-piece metal shoes.
The old buckskin shirt with long fringes and the unkept beard made him look like a mountain man of long ago.
He found the water bucket and drank deep, then realized the shouting continued: swiftly, he drew on his buckskins and unlaced the lodge flap.
The next morning when he stepped outside the cabin and unlaced the buckskins, his previous yellow stains had been washed away.
Terrance is wearing a fringed buckskin vest without a shirt and Bonny wishes the cam would zoom in on his well-muscled shoulders, his sculpted chest.