buffet
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be boughtA counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
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» Two for the lunch buffet, please.
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5 sensesA counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
Anrichte, Büfett
буфе́тbufét, сто́йкаstójka
буфе́тbufét
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
We'll be serving supper buffet style.
Buffet
буфе́тbufét, фурше́тfuršét, шве́дский столšvédskij stol
фурше́тfuršét, шве́дський стілšvédsʹkyj stil
a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help 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.
October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
(uncountable)The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
Examples
27 sentencesTwo for the lunch buffet, please.
Are you still at the buffet?
"Tuck in!" said Tom, opening the buffet.
de„Greift zu!“ sagte Tom und eröffnete damit das kalte Büffet. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Benedito's restaurant has a Thursday brunch buffet.
She sat at the buffet eating peanuts.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”),Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.
From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).
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