seafood buffet
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- noun
- /ˈsiːfʊd bʊˈfeɪ/
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buffet de mariscos
- We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant known for its lavish seafood buffet with all-you-can-eat options.
- seafood buffet on Friday
- night seafood buffet
- eat a seafood buffet
Examples
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If the real cost, for instance, of gorging on "all you can eat" seafood buffets were part of the advertising campaign, I doubt we would find the menu so appetizing.
Academic text (2005) -
At the resort, they offer an extensive seafood buffet featuring crab, shrimp, and oysters for dinner.
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Look, I got these from the seafood buffet.
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There is a heck of a seafood buffet.
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Mister Rick is paying for us to go to the seafood buffet.
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Seafood buffet.
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The seafood buffet included delicious dishes like lobster, clams, and a variety of fish.
Synonyms
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2.3
A meal where people serve themselves from many dishes laid out on a table
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a self-service meal offering various seafood dishes' is directly derivable from combining 'seafood' (edible marine animals) with 'buffet' (a self-service meal/event). This simple noun+noun compositional pattern is transparent and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Seafood buffet gives a clear image: a long table full of seafood like shrimp, oysters and crab where people serve themselves. The word buffet shows it is 'self-service', so the phrase means a meal with 'many dishes' of seafood you can help yourself to.