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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
buckskin
 
SYLLABICATION:buck·skin
PRONUNCIATION:  bkskn
NOUN:1a. The skin of a male deer. b. A soft, grayish-yellow leather usually having a suede finish, once made from deerskins but now generally made from sheepskins. 2. buckskins Clothing, especially breeches or shoes, made from buckskin. 3. A person who wears buckskins, especially an American backwoodsman or soldier in the Revolutionary War. 4. A horse of a grayish-yellow color.
OTHER FORMS:buckskinADJECTIVE
 
 
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