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BUFF'ET, n. A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room but in more fashionable houses,it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people,by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET, n. A blow with the fist a box on the ear or face a slap.

BUFF'ET, To strike with the hand or fist to box to beat.

They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math 26

1. To beat in contention to contend against as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET, To exercise or play at boxing.