Thick leather coat, often sleeveless, worn alone or under armor.
1 Surely yon buff jerkin is like to those worn by the idle cavaliers at home!
2 In all these figured a brave and graceful Sir Eustace Lyle, in cuirass and buff jerkin , with gleaming sword and flowing plume.
3 Montignac was attired rather like a soldier than like a scribe, having on a buff jerkin and wearing both sword and dagger.
4 The rest of his time, after eating his dinner, he spent in making overshoes for his mare out of an old buff jerkin .
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.
6 They were handsomely dressed, although some wore corslets over their satin coats or lace above buff jerkins .
7 A gentleman of rank and his favourites in velvet and furs and feathers; and four or five armed retainers in buff jerkins .
8 Yonder old fellow, when his blood was up, looked more like a carver of buff jerkins than a clipper of kid gloves.
9 It was of little moment, however; for we rode in the lighter buff jerkins instead of heavy mail, and were not going far.
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.
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