Buckskin is a soft leather made of deerskin or sheepskin; also a strong, twilled woollen cloth, cropped of nap and carefully finished. 'Buckskin breeches' are usually of this cloth, not of the leather. See BUFF LEATHER.
Buckskin
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 513
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