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English
Etymology
From doe + skin.
Noun
doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)
- (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.
- (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.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.
Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.
- (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.
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