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Doeskin   Listen
noun
Doeskin  n.  
1.
The skin of the doe.
2.
A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; made for men's wear.





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"Doeskin" Quotes from Famous Books



... foot and a half of the point, there was a piece broken out of the edge. Then, very hastily, the queen ran with the sword into her bower, and from her treasure-chest she drew a casket, and from the casket she drew a tiny piece of doeskin, and from that she took a fragment ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert
... camp utensils, displayed to the best advantage, the wedding dower of the Chief's daughter. By her father's house BRIGHT WATER is being dressed for bridal by her young companions. They braid her hair, paint her face, tie her moccasins, and arrange her beads over the robe of white doeskin; they laugh as they work and are happily important as is the custom of bridesmaids. The older women are winnowing grain and ...
— The Arrow-Maker - A Drama in Three Acts • Mary Austin
... doing as I proposed it was the wish of the queen that I should appear in public suitably arrayed. Thereupon he vanished, and presently returned bearing a superb doublet of gold scale armour upon a foundation of doeskin as soft as a kid glove, a broad belt of massive gold links heavily studded with uncut diamonds, supporting a gold-bladed sword in a richly chased golden sheath, and a gold helmet, wadded and lined with silk and ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood


Words linked to "Doeskin" :   material, leather, cloth


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