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buffet.

sideboard, dresser (a piece of furniture)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/by.fɛ/
  1. sideboard, dresser (a piece of furniture)

    masculine
  2. buffet (food)

    masculine
  3. belly

    masculine · slang
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French bufet (1150), from Old French bufet, of uncertain origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing. Compare Scottish Gaelic biadh (“food, sustenance”), buadha (“valuable, precious”). Or, according to the Digitized Treasury of the French Language, from an imitative source akin to bouffer (“to eat (in excess)”).

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