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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man.
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pl. Breeches made of buckskin.
I have alluded to his buckskin.
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. 6 breeches made of buckskin.
WordNet
n. horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail
a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin
Wikipedia
Buckskin is a hair coat color of horses, referring to a color that resembles certain shades of tanned deerskin. Similar colors in some breeds of dogs are also called buckskin. The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs). Buckskin occurs as a result of the cream dilution gene acting on a bay horse. Therefore, a buckskin has the Extension, or "black base coat" (E) gene, the agouti gene (A) gene (see bay for more on the agouti gene), which restricts the black base coat to the points, and one copy of the cream gene (CCr), which lightens the red/brown color of the coat to a tan/gold.
Buckskins should not be confused with dun-colored horses, which have the dun dilution gene, not the cream gene. Duns always have primitive markings (shoulder blade stripes, dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on legs, webbing). However, it is possible for a horse to carry both dilution genes; these are called "buckskin duns" or sometimes "dunskins." Also, bay horses without any dun gene may have a faint dorsal stripe, which sometimes is darkened in a buckskin without a dun gene being present. Additional primitive striping beyond just a dorsal stripe is a sure sign of the dun gene.
A buckskin horse can occur in any number of different breeds least one parent must carry the cream gene, and not all breeds do. Since 1963, the American Buckskin Registry Association (ABRA) has been keeping track of horses with this coat color, and although Buckskin is sometimes classified as a color breed, due to its genetic makeup that depends on having one, not two copies of the dilution allele, it cannot ever be a consistently true-breeding trait.
Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal - usually deer, elk or moose - tanned in the same way as deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. Some leather sold as "buckskin" may now be sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin.
Buckskin is preserved with a dressing of some kind of lubricant, physically manipulated to make it soft and pliable, and usually smoked with woodsmoke. Smoking gives buckskin its typical dark honey color, and is highly recommended. Smoking prevents the tanned hide from becoming stiff if it gets wet, and deters insects from eating it as well. Unsmoked buckskin is lighter, even white, in color.
Buckskin is simply "the skin of a buck (deer)." Clothing made of buckskin is referred to as buckskins.
Buckskin may refer to:
- Buckskin (leather), leather made of buck (i.e. deer) hide
- Buckskins, an outfit of buckskin leather
- Buckskin (horse), a body color of horses similar to buckskin leather, the animals also have a black mane and tail
- Buckskin (racehorse)
- Buckskinning, a branch of historical reenactment concentrating on the fur trade period of the Old West community in the United States
- Buckskin Mountains (Arizona) of Arizona
- Buckskin Mountains (Arizona-Utah), on the Arizona-Utah border
- Buckskin (TV series)
Buckskin is an American Western television series starring Tom Nolan, Sally Brophy, and Mike Road. The series aired on the NBC network from July 3, 1958 until May 25, 1959, followed by summer reruns in 1959 and again in 1965.
Buckskin (1968) is a western film, released by Paramount Pictures, released on a low budget and starring an all-star cast. The main stars were Barry Sullivan and Joan Caulfield. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the role of Sheriff Tangley and Richard Arlen plays a townsman. The other stars were Barbara Hale, John Russell, Wendell Corey, Bill Williams, Leo Gordon, George Chandler, Aki Aleong and Barton MacLane. The film was also known as The Frontiersman. It was the last of the series of A.C. Lyles Westerns for Paramount. The screenwriter Michael Fisher was the son of the series screenwriter Stephen Gould Fisher.
Betty Hutton was originally selected to play the role of Nora Johnson, but she was fired.
The film also has a small racial twist, common in films of the late 1960s. Sung Lee (played by Aleong) is a Chinese worker who is a victim of prejudice, Chaddock (Sullivan) fights for him during the film.
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 serious physical problems to win several major long distance races including the Prix du Cadran (twice), Prix de Barbeville, Prix Jean Prat, Doncaster Cup, Jockey Club Cup and Henry II Stakes. He was also the beaten favourite in three successive runnings of the Ascot Gold Cup. After his retirement from racing, he became a very successful sire of National Hunt horses.
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.