Noun: buffet
| Singular | buffet |
| Plural | buffets |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:]
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We'll be serving supper buffet style.
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"We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe." [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 312:]
Nouns inflected like buffet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
buffet', Middle English Nouns '
buffet'.
Verbs referencing "buffet"
Spanish Nouns
bofetada.