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buckskin

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Recent Examples of buckskin In his vision, Eddie saw my father on his horse, wearing his war bonnet and buckskins, riding into the other world, the warrior heading home. —

Christa Swanson, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026 The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally. —

Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 Meanwhile, Navajo baby carriers are built from a Ponderosa pine frame laced with buckskin straps. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2025 Even if hair is to be removed later in making buckskin or leather, use salt now to give the hide better quality. —

Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for buckskin

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Noun

Some of the Native Americans depicted in these pages are clad with only a deerskin loincloth.

— Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
Before the lean-to was finished, Tom crawled into it and wrapped the deerskin around his feet without taking his boots off.

— Elwyn "Bud" Myers, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026