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Buffet   /bˈəfət/  /bəfˈeɪ/   Listen
noun
Buffet  n.  
1.
A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. "Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside."
2.
A counter for food or refreshments.
3.
Hence: A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
4.
A meal set out on a buffet(2), arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire; as, a buffet dinner. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet(2), placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.


Buffet  n.  
1.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. "When on his cheek a buffet fell."
2.
A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. "Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay." "Fortune's buffets and rewards."
3.
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. "Go fetch us a light buffet."


verb
Buffet  v. t.  (past & past part. buffeted; pres. part. buffeting)  
1.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. "They spit in his face and buffeted him."
2.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. "The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores." "You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world."
3.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.


Buffet  v. i.  
1.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. "If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher."
2.
To make one's way by blows or struggling. "Strove to buffet to land in vain."





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"Buffet" Quotes from Famous Books



... these words, amidst the outcry made by the young, the second raven stooped at him, just as a falcon would at a heron, and it came so unexpectedly, that once more the point of the sword was ill directed, and a severe buffet of the bird's wing nearly sent ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... down (the HOST vainly endeavouring to interfere) and buffet him; as Sin-Despise draws his sword, the trumpets ...
— Cromwell • Alfred B. Richards
... he was delivered to their will—Judas may sell him; Peter may deny him; all his disciples forsake him; the enemy apprehends him, binds him, they have him away like a thief to Caiaphas the high-priest, in whose house he is mocked, spit upon, his beard is twitched from his cheeks; now they buffet him and scornfully bow the knee before him; yea, 'his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men' ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... closed when they reached it, and they drove on to the only other place where food could be bought past the hour of midnight—the station buffet. ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... smiling. "Thank you very much, sleuth. I shan't forget you ... O'Hagan," Tossing the janitor the keys from his desk, "you'll find some—ah—lemon-pop and root-beer in the buffet, this officer and his friends will no doubt join you in a friendly drink downstairs. Cabby, I want a word with you.... Good ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance


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