BUCKSKINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buckskins mean? 

• BUCKSKINS (noun)
  The noun BUCKSKINS has 1 sense:

1. (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin

  Familiarity information: BUCKSKINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKSKINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("buckskins" is a kind of...):

breeches; knee breeches; knee pants; knickerbockers; knickers ((used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

That is Buck Whalley, who walked to Jerusalem in a long blue coat, top-boots, and buckskins.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not need to be shown the way in a house where I have drunk many a bottle of good claret, cried a deep voice in reply; and there in the doorway stood the broad figure of Squire Ovington in his buckskins and top-boots, a riding-crop in his hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)