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buffet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buffet \Buf"fet\ (b[u^]f"f[e^]t), n. [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]
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A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
When on his cheek a buffet fell.
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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.
--Burke.Fortune's buffets and rewards.
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A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Go fetch us a light buffet.
--Townely Myst.
Buffet \Buf*fet"\ (b[oo^]f*f[=a]"), n. [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.]
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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.
--Pope. A counter for food or refreshments.
Hence: A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
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 \Buf"fet\, v. i.
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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.
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To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Strove to buffet to land in vain.
--Tennyson.
Buffet \Buf"fet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.]
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To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
They spit in his face and buffeted him.
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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.
--Broome.You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
--W. Black. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "to strike with the fist or hand; cuff, box, slap; from Old French bufeter "to strike, slap, punch," from bufet (see buffet (n.2)). Related: Buffeted; buffeting.
"table," 1718, from French bufet "bench, stool, sideboard," 12c., which is of uncertain origin. Sense in English extended 1888 to "meal served from a buffet."
c.1200, "blow struck with a fist or weapon," from Old French bufet "slap, punch," diminutive of bufe "a blow, slap, punch; puff of wind," figuratively "cunning trick," probably echoic of the sound of something soft being hit.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. 2 Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. 3 A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Etymology 2
n. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. 2 (context transitive figurative English) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise. 3 To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against. 4 To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. Etymology 3
n. A low stool; a hassock.
WordNet
n. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers [syn: counter, sideboard]
a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
usually inexpensive bar [syn: snack bar, snack counter]
v. strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: knock about, batter]
strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" [syn: buff]
Wikipedia
A buffet is a meal laid out on a table or sideboard so that guests may serve themselves.
Buffet may also refer to:
- Sideboard, a piece of furniture
- Strike (attack), to strike repeatedly and violently
- Buffeting, aerodynamic turbulence on a fixed-wing aircraft prior to and during a stall
- Buffet car
Buffet is a surname of French origin. People with the surname include:
- The Buffet family of musical instrument makers
- Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), a French painter
- Louis Buffet (1818–1898), a 19th-century French statesman
- Marie-George Buffet (born 1949), a French politician
- Warren Buffett (born 1930), an American business magnate and philanthropist, described as the most successful investor in the world
- Yannick Buffet (born 1979), a French ski mountaineer
A buffet ( in UK, in US, from ) is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners generally serve themselves. Buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants and many social events. Buffet restaurants normally offer all-you-can-eat (AYCE) food for a set price. Buffets usually have some hot dishes, so the term cold buffet (see Smörgåsbord) has been developed to describe formats lacking hot food. Hot or cold buffets usually involve dishware and utensils, but a finger buffet is an array of foods that are designed to be small and easily consumed only by hand, including cupcakes, slices of pizza, foods on cocktail sticks, etc.
The essential feature of the various buffet formats is that the diners can directly view the food and immediately select which dishes they wish to consume, and usually also can decide how much food they take. Buffets are effective for serving large numbers of people at once, and are often seen in institutional settings, such as business conventions or large parties.
Usage examples of "buffet".
He came over to me on his way back from the buffet, with a glass of freshly squeezed in his hand, as if it had just occurred to him that a chat with the jail-bird might be fun.
Jason gave Kira the credit before Gram hustled their attendees back toward the house, all of them highly entertained, ready for the dessert buffet, a visit to the aviary, and dancing.
The musicians were sitting cross-legged on a raised platform behind the buffet, a live ensemble of oboists, percussionists, bagpipers, and one-string violin players in the plaid tribal robes of the Islamic Kingdom of Scotland and Wales.
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As Becky propped the front door wide, opened window transoms, and set about buffeting dust and tobacco smoke, Roger would take the milk and rolls back to the kitchen and give Bock a morning greeting.
The hail and buffeting became even worse for several moments, then they broke into misty clear air at twelve hundred feet and it subsided, wisps of thin cloud and flakes of snow bursting past them, the frozen Baltic below.
He quickly applied power and pulled back on the stick, dropped the flaps, and the Norseman rose back into the turbulent cloud again, shuddering as it was sucked up into the air and the buffeting resumed as before.
The wind was a brutal live force aloft, buffeting him and set- ting his clothing rattling, and the higher he went, the harder it was to breathe as the wind made his cheeks flutter.
A metre-wide geyser of water slammed upwards out of the gap, buffeting the corpse with it.
Yossarian, once he had plugged his headset back into the intercom system, after it had been jerked out when Dobbs wrested the controls away from Huple and hurled them all down suddenly into the deafening, paralyzing, horrifying dive which had plastered Yossarian helplessly to the ceiling of the plane by the top of his head and from which Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.
The dining-room had green wall-paper with yellow roses, bare floor and, for splendour, an enormous black walnut buffet adorned with silver cruet stands and fruit-and-nut bowls of imitation cut-glass--thriftily empty save at Sunday noon.
By the time she checked on the greenhouse, the odd stinging spot of rain was flying from the sky, and the wind had reached almost furious pitch, the eucalypts buffeted by the gusts.
Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.
Seconds later, the fighter struck Gord a buffet that nearly knocked him unconscious, but missed with his follow-up attack, and again took painful wounds in return.
After a hurried stop downstairs for their equipment, Evon and Robbie buffeted through the after-work crowd, the walks illuminated by the autos gridlocked in the avenues.