buff

Definition

Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

Etymology

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).

Example Sentences

• "[…]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]"
• "1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203, […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff."
• "His face changed from tan to buff."