buffet

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  1. noun A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.
  2. noun A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.
  3. noun A restaurant having such a counter.
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  • Brunch is an aberrant, grotesquely heavy meal, and the buffet is the worst mediocre-food-delivery-system ever invented.
  • The passengers then go and sit in the buffet which is typical of all frontier buffets. —  Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04—Simenon, Georges
  • The backs of the pennies will list prizes such as a free meal at a CiCi's pizza buffet, a free drink, and a buy-one-pizza-get-one-free deal that can be redeemed at local CiCi's locations. —  Greeley Tribune - Top Stories
  • With warming lights built-in over the kitchen buffet, a club-style bar and game rooms in the basement, and a backyard pool and pool house, Kandi Slade's home in Baltimore County's Wakefield community has long been the place to gather. —  Blog updates
  • No need to order these, though, because his buffet is one of ...
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sideboard ·  picnic ·  bookcase ·  wardrobe ·  dining-room ·  restaurant ·  cafe ·  slap ·  dessert ·  dresser ·  dine ·  lunch

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buffet:   buffets ·  buffeted
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. French.
  2. Middle English, from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, blow.

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  1. from Middle English buffet, boffet, bofet (= Icelandic buffeit), from Old French buffet, bufet (= Italian buffeto, formerly buffetto, boffetto; cf. Spanish Portuguese bofetada), a blow, from buffe, bufe, a blow: see buff .
  2. from Middle English buffeten, bofeten = Icelandic buffeita (cf. Spanish bofetear, abofetear, Portuguese bofetear = Italian buffetare, boffettegiare—Florio), buffet; from the noun.
  3. Sometimes erroneously written beaufet (simulating French beau, fine—a notion present, in another form, in the orig. use), from Middle English buffitt, buffit, boffet, bofet (in def. 4, and comp. buffet-stool, q. v.) = D. G. Danish Swedish buffet = Russian bufetŭ, a sideboard, = Spanish Portuguese bufete, a desk, writing-table, Portuguese also a sideboard, from French buffet, a sideboard, a cupboard, in older F. especially of an elegant or costly kind, “a court cupboord, or high-standing cupboord, also a cupboord of plate, also as much plate as will furnish a cupboord” (Cotgrave), also a desk or writing-table, from Italian buffetto, formerly also boffetto, a cupboard, sideboard, buffet (Middle Latin bufetum, a buffet, cf. buffetus, a council; cf. bureau in similar senses), apparently so called from its elegance, being = Old French bufoi, buffois, sumptuousness, show, pomp, fine equipage, from bufer, buffer (= Italian buffare, etc.), puff, blow: see buff , and cf. buffet .
 

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