| 单词 | return buffet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreturn buffet return buffet n. ΚΠ 1859 G. W. Thornbury Life in Spain I. ix. 201 Once, such an insult would have sent the blood in a rush to my head, and I had died but I had given a return buffet. 1883 R. W. Church in Ward's Eng. Poets (1883) II. 280 The men who..dealt the return buffet to Spanish pride in the harbour of Cadiz. 1916 G. L. Kittredge Stud. Gawain & Green Knight ii. ii. 297 There can be no doubt that the return buffet came in where it should. 1999 G. Rogers et al. in W. R. J. Barron Arthur of Eng. vi. 202 For Gawain this restraint seems to be the culmination of the test but it is merely confirmation of his suitability for the task ahead, as the Turk's refusal to strike the return buffet indicates. < as lemmas |
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