When you see the word buffet, it's hard not to think "all you can eat." Although the noun can refer to food set out for self service, buffet also means "a blow, especially with the hand," and as a verb "to strike sharply."
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.
Noun
a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
Noun
usually inexpensive bar
Noun
a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
Verb
strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him"
Verb
strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent"
n.
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.
n.
A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad
station, or place of public gathering.
v. i.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
v. t.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to
cuff; to slap.
v. t.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive
with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
v. t.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
v. i.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to
strive; to contend.
v. i.
To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Buffet
Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside.2.
Buffet
When on his cheek a buffet fell.2.
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.
Go fetch us a light buffet.
Buffet
They spit in his face and buffeted him.2.
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.
Buffet
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.2.
Strove to buffet to land in vain.
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.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
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