ˈdeerskin
The skin of a deer, especially as a material for clothing. Also attrib.
| 1396 Will of Wodehous (Commissary Crt.), Meam togam blod' cum furrure & vn deriskyn. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 187 ¶3 [She] laid aside from that hour her white deer skins. 1820 Scott Monast. xiv, In his home-spun doublet, blue cap, and deerskin trousers. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxxiv. 362 Dressed..each in a large deerskin. |