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bouffes

bouffes is the plural of bouffe.

Meaning of bouffe

Noun

bouffe (plural bouffes)

  1. A comic opera
    • 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

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Phrases with bouffes

Questions about bouffes

What is bouffes the plural of?
Bouffes is the plural of bouffe.

Words near bouffes in the dictionary

  1. bouffanty
  2. Bouffard
  3. Bouffards
  4. bouffe
  5. bouffed
  6. bouffes
  7. bouffing
  8. bouffon
  9. bouffons
  10. bouffy
  11. bouffée délirante

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bouffes (page history and authors); bouffe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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