Both Uses of
buffet
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- And to him in answer spake the fair-crowned queen of the echoing chase: "It was thy wife that buffeted me, father, the white-armed Hera, from whom are strife and contention come upon the immortals."†
Book 21 *
- By cunning is a woodman far better than by force; by cunning doth a helmsman on the wine-dark deep steer his swift ship buffeted by winds; by cunning hath charioteer the better of charioteer.†
Book 23
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Buffet can also be a last name.