Noun: buckskin
| Singular | buckskin |
| Plural | buckskins |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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I have alluded to his buckskins. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
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Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man. [1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War:]
Nouns inflected like buckskin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin. See: Middle English Nouns '
bukskyn'.