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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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchbufflebuffalo

Words derived from “buffe”

  • buffer
  • buff
  • buffering
  • buffing
  • buffy
  • framebuffer
  • buffish
  • bufferless
  • buffware
  • counterbuff
  • buffin
  • multibuffer
  • buffable
  • bufferdom
  • prebuffer
  • bufferhead
  • railbuff
  • cryobuffer
  • debuff
  • nonbufferable
  • autobuffering
  • buffly
  • multibuffering
  • unbufferable
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