Where does “buffe” come from?

buffe (English) comes from Middle French buffle — buffalo.

buffe (English): leather

Definitions

  1. leather

Ancestry of “buffe”, step by step

buffe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French buffle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchbufflebuffalo

via Old French buffe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbuffeblow

Words derived from “buffe

Every word from Middle French buffle