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Definition buffet

Etymology 1

Borrowing from French buffet.

Noun

buffet (plural buffets)

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

From Middle English buffet, from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).

Noun

buffet (plural buffets)

1. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

Etymology 3

From Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above).

Verb

buffet (third-person singular simple present buffets, present participle buffeting or buffetting, simple past and past participle buffeted or buffetted)

1. (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
2. (transitive, figuratively) 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 4

From Old French [Term?], of unknown origin.

Noun

buffet (plural buffets)

1. A low stool; a hassock.

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