"buffin" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for its resemblance to buff leather.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "buffin gowns",
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          "ref": "1968 [1540], John Nevinson, transl., Raffella of Master Alexander Piccolomini: Or Rather, A Dialogue of the Fair Perfectioning of Ladies, translation of La Raffaella, ovvero, Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne by Alessandro Piccolomini, page 35:",
          "text": "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 with a little fine sugar.",
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          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture."
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        "(obsolete) A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture."
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  "word": "buffin"
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  "etymology_text": "Named for its resemblance to buff leather.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buffins",
      "tags": [
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          "text": "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 with a little fine sugar.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(obsolete) A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture."
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  "word": "buffin"
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