doeskin

Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.

Noun

  1. Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
    • He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum... - 1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha:
    • A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs. - 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Lost Continent:
  2. 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.
  3. A glove made of doeskin leather.
    • Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.
  4. A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
    • In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it. - 1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10:

Origin

From doe + skin.

Forms

doeskins

Hyponyms

skin