A name given to the blindfold player in the game of BLIND-MAN’S BUFF. Shadow buff: a modern game in which one player has to guess the identity of the other players from seeing only their shadows.
1647. Fanshawe, Pastor Fido (1676), 78. Behold the Buff [orig. ecco la cieca].
1879. Hoffmann, Drawing-r. Amusm., 9. Shadow Buff is a game of greater originality. The company now pass in succession before the light but behind Buff.
