Meaning of buffin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A surname.

Examples

“buffin gowns”

“I will tell thee, albeit that I know thou wilt not understand me. One takes the finest true silver and quicksilver passed through buffin cloth, and when blended together they are ground for a day in the same direction with a little fine sugar.”

“The fabrics he bought–buffin, sackcloth, rash, jean fustian and milan fustian, durance–were modestly priced, affordable by the merchants and well-to-do yeomen of the town.”

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