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Buff jerkin

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originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color.

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A more complete article of defensive armor was a buff jerkin or shirt of great thickness, made of doublings of elk skin, and reaching to the feet, holes being left for the head and arms.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a-groaning with grief and pain, and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides, but, by good luck, I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
 
 
 
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