deerskin

Everyday

The skin of a deer, especially when made into soft leather for clothes, shoes or bags. tree →

In the lessons

In history lessons, Stone Age and Native American peoples used deerskin for clothes, moccasins and drums. In the Just So Stories, Taffy and her father Tegumai wear skins and bark and live like Neolithic people; Taffy's mother and her people use deerskin. Today deerskin leather is used for soft gloves.

Examples

• The moccasins were made of soft deerskin. tree →
• Stone Age people sewed clothes from deerskin. tree →
• Tegumai wrapped himself in a deerskin. tree →
• Deerskin gloves are very soft and warm. tree →
• The drum was covered with a deerskin. tree →
• The hunter dried the deerskin in the sun. tree →
• He wears a deerskin jacket, with bright colored beads sewed tightly on it. tree →

Note

Compound: deer + skin. Uncountable for the leather (some deerskin), countable for one whole skin (a deerskin). Similar: buckskin, suede.