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/ˈbʊf.eɪ/ · noun
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought..
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
We'll be serving supper buffet style.
"We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."
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
On his cheek a buffet fell.
Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There would be little or no buffet. The DFDR also indicated that there was some turbulence, which could have masked any aerodynamic buffeting. Since the roll to the left began at V₂ + 6 and since the pilots were aware that V₂ was well above the aircraft's stall speed, they probably did not suspect that the roll to the left indicated a stall. In fact, the roll probably confused them, especially since the stickshaker had not activated.
They spit in his face and buffeted him.
Use buffet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Buffet means A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought..
Common synonyms include sideboard, smorgasbord, cupboard, buffet meal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
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