What is "buffets"

Usage examples of "buffets".

Ironside and I, both single, both thirty-one, both meteorologists employed to interpret the invisible swings and buffets of global air for television and radio audience consumption, both of us found without excitement that some of the holiday weeks allotted to us overlapped.

Youre hosting cocktail parties and buffets following each of the seminars on computer security that were putting on once a month.