buckskin/ˈbʌkˌskɪn/EtymologyFrom Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.adjOf a grayish yellow in colour.nounThe skin of a male deer, a buck.Clothing made from buckskin.“As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.”Breeches made of buckskin.“I have alluded to his buckskins.”A grayish yellow in colour.A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.“Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.”