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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



... Mercy, justifieth the sentence of the law that was gone out against his sins. He wrangleth not with the law, saying, that was too severe; though many men do thus, saying, "God forbid; for then woe be to us." He wrangleth not with the witness, which was his own conscience; though some will buffet, smite, and stop its mouth, or command it to be silent. He wrangleth not with the jury, which were the prophets and apostles; though some men cannot abide to hear all that they say. He wrangleth not with the judge, nor sheweth himself irreverently before him; but in all humble gestures ...
— The Pharisee And The Publican • John Bunyan
... the English which the sons had learned and with Gard's German which he found a strange article on its native ground, headway was made after a fashion. His bloodless American college variety of the language was very weak to buffet about in these ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry
... palm-houses had been emptied to form an avenue of green up the middle of the picture-gallery, at whose extreme end an altarpiece, representing a scene from the Book of Revelation, showed a company of the heavenly host as a background to a buffet-table crowded with refreshments. The constant movements and the brilliant lights provided a fitting air of gaiety to the scene. It was Mrs. Ogilvie's whim to have her rooms illuminated in a manner as nearly as possible to represent the effect of tempered sunlight. 'No woman cares ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... conducted the Queen to supper, which was served in the dining-room. The long double table was covered with shields, vases, and tankards of massive gold plate. Opposite the Queen, where she sat at the centre of the horseshoe or cross table, a superb buffet reached almost to the roof, covered with plate, interspersed with blossoming flowers. After supper her Majesty danced in a quadrille with Prince George of Cambridge, opposite the Duke of Beaufort and the Duchess of Buccleugh. The Queen left the ball-room ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler
... the same day with a broom or a whip. The moanings and groans of the dying child, whose wounds were mortifying from neglect, aroused the pity of a baker opposite, who sent the overseers of the parish to see the child, who was found hid in a buffet cupboard. She was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and soon died. Brownrigge was at once arrested; but Mrs. Brownrigge and her son, disguising themselves in Rag Fair, fled to Wandsworth, and there took lodgings ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury


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