buff-coated

Updated: April 30, 2025

Open the gates, porter. I give you welcome, Lord Musgrave of Peelholm. But who are these? he added, looking at the troop of buff-coated archers in the rear. 'They are bold champions of the Red Rose, returned Sir Giles, 'who have lived with me in the wolds, and now are on the way to maintain our King's quarrel. Sir Lancelot, however, would not hear of admitting the outlaws.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Herd Boy and His Hermit

Jack-booted, buff-coated troopers; scarlet militiamen; brown, stern-faced Tauntonians; serge-clad pikemen; wild, ragged miners; smockfrocked yokels; reckless, weather-tanned seamen; gaunt cragsmen from the northern coast all pushed and jostled each other in a thick, many-coloured crowd.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke: His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph,: Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734