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noun

Junket n.

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. "How Faery Mab the junkets eat." "Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets."

A feast; an entertainment. "A new jaunt or junket every night."

A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.

verb

Junket v. t. (past & past part. junketed; pres. part. junketing) To give entertainment to; to feast. "The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors."

Junket v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. "Job's children junketed and feasted together often."

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Etymology of 'Junket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books

... published, to be a Sunday-school book, and a volume of "Good Form for High Society" rolled into one; but she is really more like a treatise on flower-gardens, and a recipe for making Devonshire junket ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... author must cross the line in person. He did not enjoy the prospect of a cold-weather trip to the north, and tried to tempt Howells to go with him, but only succeeded in persuading Osgood, who would do anything or go anywhere that offered the opportunity for pleasant company and junket. ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... done certainly all he could to make it up with the girl. He tried to get her to go with him on what was really a junket to Vienna—there was no better place to play than the Vienna of those days—though there was also some sort of surgical congress there that spring that served him as an excuse, and Mary, Miss Wollaston felt, had only herself ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... junket, ice cream, sponge cake, and fruit are far better than the rich pastries, which never fail even in health to encourage indigestion and heart burn. The fruitades are all good. Candies and other sweets may be eaten in ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... all as colder or warmer. Then quickly turn in the water with the tablet melted in it, stirring it only once, and pour immediately into small cups on the table. These must stand for half and hour without being moved, and then the junket will be stiff, and the cups can be put in the ice-box. In winter you must warm the cups till they are like the milk. This is very nice with a spoonful of whipped cream on each cup, and bits of preserved ginger or of ...

— A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl • Caroline French Benton

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