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Blindman's-Buff

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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BLINDMAN'S-BUFF (from an O. Fr. word, bufi'e, a blow, especially a blow on the cheek), a game in which one player is blindfolded and made to catch and identify one of the others, who in sport push him about and "buffet" him.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Blindman's-Buff'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/blindmans-buff.html. 1910.
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