buffin

Noun

1. A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture.
   • 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...
   • 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. - 2013 September 27, Drea Leed, “William Wray,...