What's the difference between buckskin and deerskin?

Buckskin

Definition:

• (n.) The skin of a buck.
• (n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
• (n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
• (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.

Example Sentences:

• (1) In heterozygous form, c cr converts bay to buckskin, and chestnut and sorrel to palomino, and results in blue-eyed white when homozygous.
• (2) The maiden wore buckskins and false eyelashes; it turned out she was some kind of actress.
• (3) It is a rare adult who has not glimpsed a gent in buckskin taking an arch beauty in muslin for a stately minuet beneath a chandelier.

Deerskin

Definition:

• (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

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