Buffet

Definition of Buffet

Buf`fet´ Pronunciation: bŭf´fĕt

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. - Pope.
	2.	A counter for food or refreshments.
	3.	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.
	1.	A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. - Sir W. Scott.
	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. - Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. - Shak.
	3.	A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. - Townely Myst.
v. t.	1.	To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] They spit in his face and buffeted him. - Matt. xxvi. 67.
	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. - Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. - W. Black.
	3.	To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
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. - Shak.
	2.	To make one's way by blows or struggling. Strove to buffet to land in vain. - Tennyson.

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