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- Old French · derived frombuffe
- English todaybuffe
From Old French buffe.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchbuffe all →
bufferblind man's buff
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
buffe
Today it means: A piece of armor covering either the entire face, or the lower face together with a visor that covered the upper face, typically made of multiple lames that could be opened by being lowered (a falling buffe) or raised. Full definition →
Old French buffe