<span class="searchmatch">pluck</span>-<span class="searchmatch">buffet</span> (uncountable) (obsolete) A kind of archery contest in which the loser received a <span class="searchmatch">buffet</span> or blow from the winner....
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Buffet</span> Inherited from Middle English <span class="searchmatch">buffet</span> (“stool”), from Middle French <span class="searchmatch">buffet</span> (“side table”), from Old French <span class="searchmatch">buffet</span>, of unknown origin....
freezing and thawing. crow to <span class="searchmatch">pluck</span> have a crow to <span class="searchmatch">pluck</span> <span class="searchmatch">pluck</span>-<span class="searchmatch">buffet</span> <span class="searchmatch">plucker</span> <span class="searchmatch">plucking</span> <span class="searchmatch">pluck</span> out <span class="searchmatch">pluck</span> up the old woman is <span class="searchmatch">plucking</span> her goose to pull something...
Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC: While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. To <span class="searchmatch">buffet</span>. 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward...