What does doeskin mean?
Doeskin means (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep..
He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum...
A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs.
Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.
Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.
In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.
Use doeskin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Doeskin means (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum...
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