buffet
IPA: bˈʌfʌt
noun
- A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- A small low stool; a hassock.
- (countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- (aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
verb
- (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
- (transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
- To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
- To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
- (intransitive) To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.
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Examples of "buffet" in Sentences
- The buffet restaurant was renovated in 2006.
- The popular buffet was set up near my house.
- In the 1990s a buffet was added to the restaurant.
- A buffet rests in the corner to the left of the fireplace.
- Many consider the buffet their best spent money of the day.
- Is a gratuity appropriate when dining at a restaurant buffet
- During the police storm, Buffet slit the throat of the hostages.
- In the 1980s the remaining five buffet cars were withdrawn and scrapped.
- It is an open coach with a small buffet counter in the centre of the coach.
- A buffet was built to the south of the station along the Avenue de Suffren.
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