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Meanings of buff jerkin in English

Spanish
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"
        1
        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 English
        1
        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...
        4
        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
        6
        They were handsomely dressed, although some wore corslets over their satin coats or lace above buff jerkins.
        The House of the Wolf: A Romance
        7
        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
        9
        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
        10
        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
        Translations for buff jerkin