Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
buff 1, etc.
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Examples
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The chicken 'buffe' gets roasted in a pre heated oven, depemnding on the size, at about 180C for 15 to 20 mins.
At My Table 2007
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July 19, 2008 at 4:44 pm huzah! lats celarbeyt wif a big buffe!
Brekdancin panda - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Mozart's opere buffe have more of truth and life in them than his opere serie; and there is as much dramatic power in an opera-comique like Carmen as in all the repertory of grand Opera to-day.
Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915
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In buffe of the bravest, most seemelye to showe; 10
Mary Ambree 1910
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Frescobaldi and Philipp Emanuel Bach brought fresh life to art, but were scorned by the so-called representatives of fine art; Mozart's _opere buffe_ have more of truth and life in them than his _opere serie_; and there is as much dramatic power in an
Musicians of To-Day Romain Rolland 1905
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This was the subject of a long conversation we had one evening after supper, particularly the 'opera - buffe' we had both seen in Italy, and with which we were highly delighted.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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_Beef_ would seem more like to have come from _buffe_ than from
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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There was heavy fighting there and much danger to the king's person, for his great buffe [the top of the visor of his helmet] was pierced, so as to let in daylight, by the thrust of a pike.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830
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This was the subject of a long conversation we had one evening after supper, particularly the opere-buffe we had both seen in
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