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buff coat, ˈbuff-coat
[See buff n.2]
1. A stout coat of buff leather, esp. worn by soldiers. Also fig.
1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. xi. (1821) 134 Captaine Harvy receevid..a blow with a pike..but escaped danger by the goodnesse of his Buffe Coat. 1685W. Adams Dedham Pulpit 104 The form of religion..is a buff coat to their sins, to turn the sharpest reproofs. 1801Grose Mil. Antiq. II. 323 The buff-coat, or jerkin..originally worn under the cuirass..became frequently a substitute for it, it having been found that a good buff leather would of itself resist the stroke of a sword..Buff-coats continued to be worn by the city trained-bands till within the memory of persons now living. 1816Scott Old Mort. ii, The jack-boots, buff coat, and other accoutrements.
2. One who wears a buff coat; a soldier.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 170 Some profane buff-coats will authorize such incendiaries. 1721N. Amherst Terræ Fil. 219 The city buff-coats, who took Liste in Bunhill-fields.
†3. See quot. Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 293/2 Buff-Coat [is] a soft Bread eaten hot with Butter. [Phillips, Kersey, & Bailey print bust-coat.]
4. = buffy coat.
Hence ˈbuff-coated a.
1856J. Grant Black Drag. xlvii, The rear-guard of buff-coated and steel-capped cavalry. |