Buffon

American  

[by-fawn] / büˈfɔ̃ /

noun

1. Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de, 1707–88, French naturalist.

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Buffon British  

/ byfɔ̃ /

noun

1. Georges Louis Leclerc (ʒɔrʒ lwi ləklɛr), Comte de . 1707–88, French encyclopedist of natural history; principal author of Histoire naturelle (36 vols., 1749–89), containing the Époques de la nature (1777), which foreshadowed later theories of evolution

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Buffon Scientific  

/ bo̅o̅-fôn′ /

1. French naturalist who spent his life compiling the Histoire naturelle, in which he attempted to discuss all of the facts about the natural world known at that time. It eventually reached 44 volumes and laid the foundation for later studies in biology, zoology, and anatomy.

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By the time national-team stars such as Gianluigi Buffon returned to Juve, the club had been banished to the second tier and stripped of two league titles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Following Buffon, Diderot posited three levels of life: the life of the entire animal, the life of each of its organs and the life of the molecule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Lorenzo Buffon: , externalGoalkeeper won 15 caps for Italy.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

He made history at the tournament in the United States with a record-breaking 507th clean sheet - overtaking former Italy international Gianluigi Buffon.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

This was of course a wild underestimate, but a radical notion nonetheless, and Buffon found himself threatened with excommunication for expressing it.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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