Buff leather is a strong, soft preparation of bull's or elk's hide, used in the Middle Ages onwards, that bore a rudimentary ability to deaden the effect...

The European buff coat is an item of leather clothing that was primarily worn by cavalry and officers during the 17th century, but also worn by a small...

Buff (Latin: bubalinus) is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: two parts of...

in Generation X Buffing, a metal finishing process Nail buffing, a cosmetic treatment A state of nudity – see In the buff. Buff leather, made of bull or...

remove additional octaves. Some harpsichords may have a buff stop, which brings a strip of buff leather or other material in contact with the strings, muting...

cuff-topped riding boots; these reached the thigh and were often also of buff leather. Munition-quality (mass-produced) armour at this time was usually of...

goatskin, but the white tassels had red cords. The sporran had a white buff leather strap and was somewhat smaller and squarer than the modern pattern. It...

in 1887. Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the color of buffed leather. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, buff as a descriptor...

methods. For some leathers, tanners apply a surface coating, called "finishing". Finishing operations can include oiling, brushing, buffing, coating, polishing...

Henry James. The colours of the Whig Party (blue and buff, a yellow-brown colour named after buff leather) were particularly associated with Charles James...

troops up to that time. The belts, straps and pouches were made from buff coloured leather, which was whitened with pipe clay; the haversack was made of white...

(Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 1) Buff is a pale yellow-brown color that got its name from the color of buffed leather. At a hue of 28, it is classified...

bassoon." The buff stop and cembalo stops seem similar to each other in method of manipulation and sound produced. The buff ("leather") stop used "....

armoured cuirassiers. They wore a back-and-front breastplate over a buff leather coat, which itself gave some protection against sword cuts, and normally...

applicator. These products can be used to buff leather without needing to apply any additional polish to either the leather or the sponge. These products are...

Buffing are finishing processes for smoothing a workpiece's surface using an abrasive and a work wheel or a leather strop. Technically, polishing refers...

right angles from the neck. Henri II of Lorraine, Duke de Guise, in the buff leather jerkin and gorget (neck armor) of a soldier. His jerkin is open from...

Indian service in the 19th century. The Ironsides cavalry, however, wore buff leather coats and armour long after the infantry had abandoned them. Thus the...

common for infantry soldiers to wear a cross belt consisting of two white buff leather straps which made an X across their chests; one belt held a bayonet and...

skull caps of black jacket leather or turned up felt with a black cockade on the left side. Their belts were of buff leather and crossed at the breast...

Guardsman's buff jerkin worn with a sash, c. 1639, from a painting by Frans Hals. During the First World War, the British army issued brown leather jerkins...

very remote areas. Chamois leather is widely used for drying and buffing vehicles after washing. Small pieces of chamois leather (often called "chamois cloth")...

the early 1660s but not completed until the late 1670s. Cavalry wore buff leather coats and breeches without specific uniform features until "grey cloth...

arms were carried with a buff leather waist-belt with brass buckles, which was attached to a double frog and holding brown leather, brass-tipped scabbards...

"leathercoating", or "leather-coating" on Wikipedia. buff leather coat, a type of coat "Long Leather Coat" (song), a 1993 song by Paul McCartney off the...

one is mostly conveyed by the background, or by a breastplate or the buff leather jerkin worn underneath armour, but once even generals began to wear military...

Nubuck (pronounced /ˈnjuːbʌk/) is top-grain leather that has been sanded or buffed on the grain side, or outside, to give a slight nap of short protein...

the leather by separating the leather fibres. buffing - abrasion of the surfaces of the leather to reduce nap or grain defects. For some leathers a surface...

journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working...

combinations, and a new register of jacks using peau de buffle (soft buff leather) plectra, instead of the usual quill, in 1768. He continued the common...