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    Buffet , n. [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.]
    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.
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      Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride
      Turns you from sound philosophy aside.
      Pope.

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    2. A counter for food or refreshments.
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    3. Hence: A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
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    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.
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    Buffet , n. [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]
    1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
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      When on his cheek a buffet fell.
      Sir W. Scott.

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    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.
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      Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay.
      Burke.

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      Fortune's buffets and rewards.
      Shak.

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    3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
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      Go fetch us a light buffet.
      Townely Myst.

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    Buffet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.]
    1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
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      They spit in his face and buffeted him.
      Matt. xxvi. 67.

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    2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
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      The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
      Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
      Broome.

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      You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
      W. Black.

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    3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
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    Buffet, v. i.
    1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
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      If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.
      Shak.

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    2. To make one's way by blows or struggling.
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      Strove to buffet to land in vain.
      Tennyson.

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