Our ablest men in the early days were the first to cease considering the little brown soldiers a joke, and their government an opera-bouffe affair.
The opera comique and the opera bouffe are also represented by the best of their class, those whose text is clearly objectionable being omitted.
At the Carignan Theatre, where opera-bouffe was being played, I saw Redegonde, with whom I had failed at Florence.
I travelled with a Chevalier de Rossignan, whose acquaintance I had made, and we went by Casal to see the opera-bouffe there.
To-day a drama, next week a comedy, opera-bouffe the week after.
What a capital subject for an opera-bouffe might be got from some of those Chicago divorce cases!
Bouffe and I had always kept up our friendship; so I made up my mind to go and have a chat with him, hoping that Dejazet, whose conversation affected one like a bottle of champagne, would join us.
I had seen the second and the last piece at least a dozen times, but I was always ready to see them again for the sake of Virginie Dejazet in the one, of Bouffe in the other.
Bouffe was telling me anecdotes about his London performances, and Dejazet was imitating the French of some of the bigwigs of King Leopold's court; so the time passed pleasantly enough.
In Which Archie Inspects an Opera Bouffe Dungeon Jail, Where He Makes the Acquaintance of Dust, Dry Rot and Deschamps.
Wagner rang the alarm bells on this operabouffe and escaped to Switzerland, Bakounin and Roeckel remained and went to prison!
If Shaw had never written another line but this bubbling study of antiquity, in which the spirit of the opera bouffe has not entered, he would be entitled to a free pass to that pantheon wherein our beloved Mark Twain sits enthroned.
The piano was still going, and the voice of the siren gave forth the brisk chorus of a bouffe drinking-song.
Before we could spread a wing, a little guard of opera bouffe soldiers was rounding the corner.
Mr. Henry Leslie's Opera Bouffe Company commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, in "Princess of Trebizonde.
But he was staying in the hotel at the time, and in half an hour returned in the opera-bouffe costume of a Brigadier-General in the army of a struggling nationality.
But fatuous diversion of shipping represented quite a minor objection to this opera-bouffe proposal.
Is it comedy, farce, opera bouffe or mere extravaganza?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bouffe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
