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buffet table

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A buffet table is a long table where guests help themselves. Lay out the buffet table.

It lets one kitchen feed a hundred people with nobody waiting to be served. A buffet table empties from the middle, which is why the good things go there.

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Definitions of buffet table

  1. 1nounbuffet tableA long table where guests help themselves.B1

    “Guests helped themselves to salads and cold meats from the buffet table.”

    • Said"Drop your coat and head for the buffet table; I'll find us a corner."
    • WrittenNobody sat down until the buffet table had been circled twice and judged.
    • UsedSet up the buffet table against a wall so guests can queue along one side.
    • ContrastA buffet table, not a dining table. At the dining table you sit; the buffet table you visit and leave. table →
    • Not thisThe bar is not the buffet table. Drinks live at one, food at the other.
    • SimplyThe buffet table is full. Take a plate and go.

    Patternat / on the buffet table · set up / clear the buffet table · queue at the buffet table

buffet table is a table.

Remember it

buffet TABLE → the TABLE you help yourself from

A long table full of dishes: you take a plate, walk along it, and help yourself.

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