doeskin
nounEtymology From doe + skin.
1
Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
- He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum...1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha:
- A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Lost Continent:
2
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.
3
In plural A glove made of doeskin leather.
- Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.
4
A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
- In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10:
- Hyponyms
- skin