| 单词 | buff-leather |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuff-leather a. (More fully buff-leather): properly, leather made of buffalo hide; but usually applied to a very stout kind of leather made of ox-hide, dressed with oil, and having a characteristic fuzzy surface, and a dull whitish-yellow colour.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > buffalo-skin buff-leather1574 buffalo-hide1703 buffalo-skin1732 parfleche1823 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from ox, cow, or buffalo neat's leather?a1425 buff-leather1574 buff-hide1589 buff-skin1589 cowhide1728 robe1761 Grecian leather1852 crop1858 crop-leather1858 steerhide1921 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1343 Couerings of saddels made of buffe leather. 1581 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 1 Mar. 2 f. 135v The bill touchyng the making of Spanyshe lether and Buffe within this Realm. 1613 Voy. Guiana in Harl. Misc. (1809) III. 190 The hide [of the Sea-cow]..will make good buff. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 43. ⁋10 To have Flea'd the Pict, and made Buff of his Skin. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 61 Losh, or buff-leather, drest in oil, fit for the use of the army. < as lemmas |
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