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buckskins

n. trousers and other clothing made from buckskin

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buckskins

n. breeches made of buckskin

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Buckskins

Buckskins are clothing, usually consisting of a jacket and leggings, made from buckskin, a soft sueded leather from the hide of deer. Buckskins are often trimmed with a fringe – originally a functional detail, to allow the garment to shed rain, and to dry faster when wet because the fringe acted as a series of wicks to disperse the water – or quills.

Buckskins derive from deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. They were popular with mountain men and other frontiersmen for their warmth and durability. Buckskin jackets, often dyed and elaborately detailed, are a staple of western wear and were a brief fad in the 1970s. The American jacket/tunic known as a wamus was originally made from buckskin with fringe.

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The newcomer was a lanky man dressed in buckskins, with long blond hair and a sweeping blond mustache, keen blue eyes, and a pair of pearl-handled Colt Python revolvers snug in their respective holsters.

The hustling crowds flowed to and fro, from casino to motel or liquor store, a frenetic swirl of humanity composed of frontier types in buckskins, Las Vegas residents and tourists in shirts and slacks or shorts, and dapper sorts in three-piece suits.

Her clothes were finely crafted homemade buckskins, embroidered on the back with a colorful representation of a rainbow.

Old Bill Cody had started to grow his hair shoulder-length and wear fringed white buckskins like some of those sissy boys who stayed in camp with the women.

Lieutenant Voroshilov made bold to speak, resorting to Russian so the fool in the buckskins could not understand.

The shoulders and elbows felt a bit tight, but they adequately hid his buckskins and that was the important thing.

Colt Pythons tucked under his belt, his Henry cradled loosely in his buckskins clad arms.

They were only in her line of sight for a moment, but Elizabeth took in the fact that they wore buckskins and fur, that they were both tall and straight, although one considerably older than the other, and that they bore long rifles held at a purposeful angle.

Outwardly, she was hardly the same woman, wearing buckskins with her hair plaited.

Most of the men owned nothing more than two sets of buckskins, and had had to dig to the bottom of their trunks.

He wore buckskins, fringed, with a wide-brimmed hat, and moccasins on his feet.

There was a burly, red-haired, and dirty man with greasy buckskins, and also a man in a black slouch hat and homespun pants who had a wide grin but few teeth.