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• a meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves.

• "a cold buffet lunch"

Similar: cold table, cold meal, self-service, smorgasbord,

• a room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks.

Similar: cafe, cafeteria, snack bar, canteen, salad bar, refreshment stall/counter, restaurant,

• a cabinet with shelves and drawers for keeping dinnerware and table linens; a sideboard.

Similar: sideboard, cabinet, china cupboard, counter,

Origin: early 18th century (denoting a sideboard): from French, from Old French bufet ‘stool’, of unknown origin.

• (especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter.

• "rough seas buffeted the coast"

Similar: batter, pound, beat/knock/dash against, push against, lash, strike, hit, bang,

• a blow or punch.

• another term for buffeting.

• "fifteen degrees of flap induce marked buffet"

Origin: Middle English: from Old French buffeter (verb), buffet (noun), diminutive of bufe ‘a blow’.

• a low stool or hassock.

Origin: late Middle English: from Old French bufet, of unknown origin.