noun-see also BUFFET
1 a meal at which people serve themselves from a table and then stand or sit somewhere else to eat:
a buffet lunch / supper * Dinner will be a cold buffet, not a sit-down meal. * a finger buffet (= food that you can eat with your hands, not with a knife and fork)
2 a place, for example in a train or bus station, where you can buy food and drinks to eat or drink there, or to take away
3 (BrE) = BUFFETCAR
4 (especially AmE) = SIDEBOARD(1)
Part of speech: verb
[VN] [oftenpassive] to knock or push sb/sth roughly from side to side:
to be buffeted by the wind * (figurative, formal) The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
seealsoBUFFET
buffeting noun [U,C,usually sing.]:
The tiny boat was ill-equipped for the buffeting it got from the wind and the rain.
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