DOESKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doeskin mean? 

• DOESKIN (noun)
  The noun DOESKIN has 2 senses:

1. soft leather from deerskin or lambskin

2. a fine smooth soft woolen fabric

  Familiarity information: DOESKIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOESKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft leather from deerskin or lambskin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

leather (an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fine smooth soft woolen fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

In the rapid glance Alleyne saw that he had white doeskin gloves, a curling white feather in his flat velvet cap, and a broad gold, embroidered baldric across his bosom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I pray you then my fair dove, that you will vouchsafe to me one of those doeskin gloves, that I may wear it as the badge of her whose servant I shall ever be.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)