| Buffet 1. (n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. 2. (n.) A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering. 3. (n.) A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. 4. (n.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. 5. (n.) A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. 6. (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. 7. (v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. 8. (v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. 9. (v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. 10. (v. i.) To make one's way by blows or struggling. Thesaurus Entries Bacon, Bellows, Benton, Botticelli, Boucher, Buffet, Cassatt, Chirico, Constable, Copley, Corot, Correggio, Courbet, Daumier, David, Degas, Delacroix, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Dufy, Eakins, El Greco, Ensor, Feininger, Fra Angelico, Fragonard, Friesz, Gainsborough, Gauguin, Gleizes, Goya, Graves, Greuze, Gris, Grosz, Hals, Hodler, Hogarth, Homer, Hopper, Ingres, Kent, Kirchner, Leger, Leo, Limburg, Lippi, Manet, Mantegna, Marc, Marin, Marquet, Masaccio, Masolino, Masson, Michelangelo, Millet, Mondrian, Monet, Moses, Munch, Murillo, Nolde, Orozco, Ozenfant, Picabia, Picasso, Pissarro, Poussin, Raphael, Redon, Rembrandt, Remington, Riley, Rivera, Romney, Rousseau, Ryder, Sargent, Siberian tiger, Titian, Turner, Vandyke, Whistler, Wood, aquarellist, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cheetah, colorist, cougar, de Kooning, historical painter, jaguar, landscapist, leopard, lion, luminarist, luminist, lynx, marine painter, miniaturist, monochromist, mountain lion, ocelot, oil-colorist, panther, pavement artist, polychromist, portrait painter, portraitist, puma, scene painter, scenewright, scenographer, simba, still-life painter, tiger, watercolorist, wildcat |