buffe

or buff

[ buhf ]

noun

, Armor.

1. plate armor for the lower part of the face and the throat, used with a burgonet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buffe¹

1590–1600; < Middle French < Italian buffa, probably special use of buffa puff of breath, hard breath; buffoon

Example Sentences

Troopers say Dylan Buffe had attacked the women before fleeing the scene in a vehicle.

From Washington Times

Buffe is being held in the Greene County jail on $1 million bail.

From Washington Times

Tales, too, young Ralegh would hear of other wild men and of their prodigious wealth, which they knew not the value of; of rubies and of pearls bartered for iron and toys; of the great creatures morses or sea-oxen, "which fish is very big, and hath two great teeth, and the skinne of them is like Buffe's leather, and they will not go away from their young ones."

From Project Gutenberg

I suppose Buffe will bring him along.

From Project Gutenberg

Behind them in the hallway Buffe can be seen with Bolling on his arm.

From Project Gutenberg