Both Uses of
buffet
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Yet he was not only the same man, but that man with his sinister qualities, formerly latent, quickened into life by his buffetings.†
Chpt 34 *
- Over the pavement on the sunny side of the way hung shopblinds so constructed as to give the passenger's hat a smart buffet off his head, as from the unseen hands of Cranstoun's Goblin Page, celebrated in romantic lore.†
Chpt 9
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.