Both Uses of
buffet
in
Don Quixote
- "I can remedy that entirely," said he of the Grove, "and in this way: before we begin the battle, I will come up to your worship fair and softly, and give you three or four buffets, with which I shall stretch you at my feet and rouse your anger, though it were sleeping sounder than a dormouse."†
Chpt 2.13-14 *
- It is, in fact, stated, that it was of enormous size, hooked in the middle, covered with warts, and of a mulberry colour like an egg-plant; it hung down two fingers' length below his mouth, and the size, the colour, the warts, and the bend of it, made his face so hideous, that Sancho, as he looked at him, began to tremble hand and foot like a child in convulsions, and he vowed in his heart to let himself be given two hundred buffets, sooner than be provoked to fight that monster.†
Chpt 2.13-14
Definitions:
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(1)
(buffet as in: buffeted by) hit repeatedly; or cause to bounce irregularly
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(2)
(buffet as in: all-you-can-eat buffet) a self-served meal
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(3)
(buffet as in: placed on the buffet) a type of furniture from which food or drink can be served
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Buffet can also be a last name.