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Meanings of buff jerkin in anglès

espanyol
chaqueta de piel de búfalo
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Thick leather coat, often sleeveless, worn alone or under armor.

chaqueta de piel de búfalo
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Examples for "buff coat"
Examples for "buff coat"
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The latter wore a long-tailed buff coat with round gold buttons.
In the Days of Poor Richard
2
Henry, he wore thy head piece, thy buff coat; thy target.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
3
I saw him try on his buff coat and hat-piece covered with black velvet.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
4
He has Henry Smith's buff coat, target, and head piece.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
5
Here is Lord Fairfax in plain buff coat slightly laced and slashed with white satin.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
Usage of buff jerkin in anglès
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Surely yon buff jerkin is like to those worn by the idle cavaliers at home!
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
2
In all these figured a brave and graceful Sir Eustace Lyle, in cuirass and buff jerkin, with gleaming sword and flowing plume.
Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
3
Montignac was attired rather like a soldier than like a scribe, having on a buff jerkin and wearing both sword and dagger.
An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t...
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The rest of his time, after eating his dinner, he spent in making overshoes for his mare out of an old buff jerkin.
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
5
He wore a steeple-crowned hat with a brooch in it, a buff jerkin and boots, and a sword and buckler dangled from his waist.
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
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They were handsomely dressed, although some wore corslets over their satin coats or lace above buff jerkins.
The House of the Wolf: A Romance
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A gentleman of rank and his favourites in velvet and furs and feathers; and four or five armed retainers in buff jerkins.
The Cloister and the Hearth
8
Yonder old fellow, when his blood was up, looked more like a carver of buff jerkins than a clipper of kid gloves.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
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It was of little moment, however; for we rode in the lighter buff jerkins instead of heavy mail, and were not going far.
King Alfred's Viking: A Story of the First English Fleet
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Here were breastplates and black morions of Oliver's troopers, and portraits of stern warriors in buff jerkins and plain bands and short hair.
The Virginians
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