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Buffet

noun

A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers. Synonyms: counter, sideboard.

A meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves.

Usually inexpensive bar. Synonyms: snack bar, snack counter.

verb

(past & past part. buffeted; pres. part. buffeting)

Strike against forcefully. Synonyms: batter, knock about.

Strike, beat repeatedly. Synonym: buff.

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"Buffet" Quotes from Famous Books

... receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. And every contestant in the games is temperate in all things. They, indeed, do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I buffet my body and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be disapproved."—The 1911 Bible. The Authorized Version reads "a castaway"; the Revised Version reads "rejected." Many have thought that Paul was striving ...

— God's Plan with Men • T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin

... stunned him like a buffet. In his own room, he sat down on a big oak chest; and, as he thought, his wrath slowly gathered. Semple knew that gay young English officers were coming and going about his house, and he had not told him until he feared they would interfere with his own plans for keeping ...

— The Bow of Orange Ribbon - A Romance of New York • Amelia E. Barr

... it, the insolent loon!' was Geordie's grim comment. 'Will De la Pole dare to talk of dubbing the Red Douglas! When I bide his buffet, it shall be in another sort. When I take knighthood, it shall be from my lawful ...

— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge

... her parties are much less carefully winnowed than those of the aristocracy in general,—stood with his spectacles on, looking a little like a fish out of water, there was the countess beside him, making him take her to the buffet, conversing with him as she does well upon every subject, and putting him so much at his ease that in a few minutes he evidently felt quite at home." Such a description as this must inevitably lead to the reflection that charming as the Countess Montijo ...

— Women of the Romance Countries • John R. Effinger

... They are ready, at a moment's notice, to embark in the ships prepared for them. Money and provisions in abundance have been sent to the frontier for the gallant Nuuman Kueprili on the backs of fifteen hundred camels. It needs but a word from thee and thine empire will become an armed hand, one buffet whereof will overthrow another empire. It needs but a wink of thine eye and a host of warriors will spring from the earth, just as if all the Ottoman heroes, who died for their country four centuries ago, were to rise from their graves to defend the banner of the Prophet. But that same banner ...

— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai

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