doeskin

English

From doe +‎ skin.

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

(uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
- 1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha‎^[1]:
  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^[2]:
  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^[3]:
  In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.