Word: buff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon a second cask. The whole was lighted up by flambeaux, and was repeatedly cheered along the route...
...Junior Class held next place in the parade. Their costume was the most effective of the class uniforms: a red coat with blue facings, buff vest crossed by a blue belt, buff knee-breeches and black hose, and a black and buff cocked...
...illustrious sons of '89 wore a nondescript costume of grey cut-away plug hat, white vest, buff trousers and white gaiters, which a transparency explained was that of a "dude...
...understood that a number of the most athletic of Harvard students are organizing a picked team to play "Blind Man's Buff" and "High Spy," but the faculty of the college expresses a preference for "Copenhagen," for the reason that it is free from the boisterousness, as a rule, which characterizes the robust games named. -New York World...
...character at this period. The following incident well illustrates his immovable persistency. The college rules at this time prescribed an undergraduate's uniform dress; and as one of the details a waistcoat of "black-mixed or black; or when of cotton or linen of white." Sumner wore a buff-colored waistcoat, which encountered the observation of the narietal committee. He maintained that it was white or nearly enough so to comply with the rule. He persisted in his position, and was summoned several times to appear for disobedience; but to no purpose. The committee, wearied with the controversy, at length...