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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



... nation which has hitherto been known as the pre-eminently pugnacious one. Where France and Germany and Russia count by hundreds, England counts by tens; and it is only, strictly speaking, on the good old principle that one Englishman can buffet a dozen foreigners that a very hopeful view of an Anglo-continental collision can be maintained. This good old principle is far from having gone out of fashion: you may hear it proclaimed to an inspiring tune any night ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... nor comfort from a merciless mocking world around; a stitch in his side, dust in his eyes, and black despair clutching at his heart. So he stumbled on, with leaden legs and bursting sides, till—as if Fate had not yet dealt him her last worst buffet—on turning a corner in the road he almost ran under the wheels of a dog-cart, in which, as it pulled up, was apparent the portly form of Farmer Larkin, the arch-enemy, whose ducks he had been shying stones at that ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame
... often startle and give a vigorous buffet to our preconceptions. He is likely to open an essay on "Good-Nature" by declaring that a good-natured man is "one who does not like to be put out of his way.... Good-nature is humanity that costs nothing;"[10] and he may ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... waterside. Troops, munitions, supplies, must go down by rail to an ice-free port. The white river-boats are all laid up. But a way is kept open across the river to Levis, and the sturdy, snub-nosed little ice-breaking ferry-boats buffet back and forth almost without interruption. There is a plenty of nothing to do, now, in the Lower Town; pipe-smoking and heated discussion of parish politics are incessant; an inconsiderate quantity of bad liquor is imbibed, pour faire passer ...
— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke
... her chair—all the chairs on Venus were pivoted, Estra said—and touched a button in the wall at her hand. A panel slid noiselessly aside, and revealed a tiny buffet. At least, Billie labeled it a buffet, for want ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint


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