buffin

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English

Etymology

Named for its resemblance to buff leather.

Noun

buffin (countable and uncountable, plural buffins)

  1. (obsolete) A sort of coarse material.
    buffin gowns

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for buffin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)