Lexicographical Neighbors of Beauffets
Literary usage of Beauffets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Court Circles of the Republic: Or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the by Elizabeth Fries Ellet, R. E. Mack (1869)
"On the side-boards and rich beauffets more splendid plate appeared. On either
side of the host were Miss Lane and the Prince. Opposite sat the President, ..."
2. Landmarks of History by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1860)
"... and the coinage was debased, the king could not pay his armies, and the haughty
nobles, who had piles of gold and silver dishes on their beauffets, ..."
3. Claret and Olives: From the Garonne to the Rhone; Or, Notes, Social by Angus Bethune Reach (1852)
"... and beauffets, its quaintly-pannelled walls, and its polished floors, gleaming
like mirrors and slippery as ice. On these occasions, the conversation ..."
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