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BUFF'ET, n. A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses,it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people,by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET, n. A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.

BUFF'ET, v.t. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.

They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.

1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET, v.i. To exercise or play at boxing.




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BUFF'ET, n. A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses,it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people,by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET, n. A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.

BUFF'ET, v.t. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.

They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.

1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET, v.i. To exercise or play at boxing.


BUFF'ET, n. [Fr. buffet; It. buffetto; Sp. bufete.]

A cupboard, or set of shelves for plates, glass, china, and other like furniture. It was formerly, and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses it has been laid aside, and a sideboard substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people, by whom it is pronounced bofat.


BUFF'ET, n. [It. buffetto; Sp. and Port. bufar, to blow, to puff; Norm. buffe, a blow; W. pafiaw, to thump. See Buffoon and Puff.]

A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap. – Milton.


BUFF'ET, v.i.

To exercise or play at boxing. – Shak.


BUFF'ET, v.t.

  1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat. They spit in his face and buffeted him. – Matth. xxvi.
  2. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows. – Otway.

Buf*fet"
  1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

    Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride
    Turns you from sound philosophy aside.
    Pope.

  2. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

    When on his cheek a buffet fell.
    Sir W. Scott.

  3. To strike with the hand or fist] to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

    They spit in his face and buffeted him.
    Matt. xxvi. 67.

  4. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

    If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.
    Shak.

  5. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
  6. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

    Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay.
    Burke.

    Fortune's buffets and rewards.
    Shak.

  7. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

    The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
    Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
    Broome.

    You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
    W. Black.

  8. To make one's way by blows or struggling.

    Strove to buffet to land in vain.
    Tennyson.

  9. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

    Go fetch us a light buffet.
    Townely Myst.

  10. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
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Buffet

BUFF'ET, noun A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses, it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people, by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET, noun A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.

BUFF'ET, verb transitive To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.

They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.

1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET, verb intransitive To exercise or play at boxing.

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