- plural of buffa.
buffe
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of buffe
1590–1600; < Middle French < Italian buffa, probably special use of buffa puff of breath, hard breath; see buffoon
Example Sentences
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Beef would seem more like to have come from buffe than from boeuf, unless the two were mere varieties of spelling.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
She clothed herselfe from the top to the toeIn buffe of the bravest, most seemelye to showe;A faire shirt of male then slipped on shee:Was not this a brave bonny lasse, Mary Ambree?
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
Nash’s Haue with you to Saffron-walden, 1596, “Yea, without kerry merry buffe be it spoken,” &c.
From Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by Alexander Dyce
One might style them true German opere buffe.'
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Item, ten or twelue good shirts of male being very good or els none, that may abide the shot of an arrow, and two buffe ierkins.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
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