The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beaufet \Beau"fet\, n. [See Buffet.] A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels.
--Prescott.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
Usage examples of "beaufet".
Besides the accustomed lights, two great wax tapers, called Christmas candles, wreathed with greens, were placed on a highly polished beaufet among the family plate.
The shadows almost made it seem that there were figures seated on the sophas and chairs or lounging by the beaufet at the side of the room, as there probably had been a few hours before.
This being consented to, the girl was produced from a cupboard under a beaufet in the dining-room, after a pair of shoes, which young Brownrigg had in his hand during the proposal, had been put upon her.
There were cellarets--the captain being a connoisseur in wines-- bureaus, secretaries, beaufets, and other similar articles, that had been collected in the course of twenty years' housekeeping, and scattered at different posts, were collected, and brought hither by means of sledges, and the facilities of the water-courses.