Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - buffet

~1 n 1 a place in a railway station, bus station etc where you can buy and eat food or drink 2 a meal of cold food at a party or other occasion, in which people serve themselves at a table and then move away to eat  (buffet lunch/supper)  (We had a buffet lunch for Hayley's christening | finger buffet (=with food that you eat with your hands)) 3 BrE the part of the train where you can buy food and drink; dining car 4 a piece of furniture in which you keep the things you use to serve and eat a meal ~2 v T usually passive 1 if wind, rain, or the sea buffets something, it hits it with a lot of force  (London was buffeted by storms last night.) 2 literary to treat someone unkindly  (weary of being buffeted by life) - buffeting n buffet sb/sth about phr v to knock or hit something and make it move