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Moleskin vs Buckskin - What's the difference?

moleskin | buckskin |

As nouns the difference between moleskin and buckskin

is that moleskin is the fur of a mole while buckskin is the skin of a male deer, a buck.

As a verb moleskin

is to cover with a moleskin bandage.

As an adjective buckskin is

of a grayish yellow in colour.

moleskin

English

Noun

(wikipedia moleskin) (en noun)
  • The fur of a mole
  • A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap
  • (in the plural) clothing made of this fabric
  • A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters
  • Verb

    (moleskinn)
  • To cover with a moleskin bandage
  • * 2011 , William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
  • *:Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers...
  • buckskin

    English

    Noun

  • The skin of a male deer, a buck.
  • Clothing made from buckskin.
  • A grayish yellow in colour.
  • A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
  • A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
  • * Burns
  • Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.
  • breeches made of buckskin.
  • * Thackeray
  • I have alluded to his buckskin .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a grayish yellow in colour.
  • See also

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