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buff: stout leather made of ox-hide, used for the attire of soldiers, and (in S.) sergeants and bumbailiffs Err. IV. ii. 36, 1H4 I. ii. 48 “is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?”
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    • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, 4.2
    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry IV, 1.2
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