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BUCKSKINS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does buckskins mean?
• BUCKSKINS (noun)
The noun BUCKSKINS has 1 sense:
1. (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin
Familiarity information: BUCKSKINS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("buckskins" is a kind of...):
breeches; knee breeches; knee pants; knickerbockers; knickers ((used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples
That is Buck Whalley, who walked to Jerusalem in a long blue coat, top-boots, and buckskins.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I do not need to be shown the way in a house where I have drunk many a bottle of good claret, cried a deep voice in reply; and there in the doorway stood the broad figure of Squire Ovington in his buckskins and top-boots, a riding-crop in his hand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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