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buffet

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/ˈbʊfeɪ/ English

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noun

  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.

noun

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

verb

  1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
  2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
  3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.“to buffet the billows”
  4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

noun

  1. A low stool; a hassock.

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