only 1 use
- Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to dainty meat, Named Idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flatteries, And froth with mean self-lauding lies.Book 2 — Old and Young (9% in)
There are no more uses of "buffet" in Middlemarch.
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