On the first terrace there were several people in long chairs looking lazy; women with picture papers, men smoking, old Buffers talking about politics and Arabs.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
It was the end of Lydia and of all Buffers between the Orient and Greece.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
After the victory of Allenby in Palestine, trains full of starving Germans came through Afion Hissar, with hundreds clinging to the roofs and Buffers and not daring to get down to beg or buy food, for fear either of being murdered or of losing their places on the train.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans