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plural bouffes
(music) A comic opera quotations examples
Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna […] .
2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in New York Times
third-person singular simple present bouffes, present participle bouffing, simple past and past participle bouffed
(transitive) To make bouffant. examples