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noun
banqueting  n.  Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).
Synonyms: feasting.


verb
Banquet  v. t.  (past & past part. banqueted; pres. part. banqueting)  To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. "Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there."


Banquet  v. i.  
1.
To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. "Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer."
2.
To partake of a dessert after a feast. (Obs.) "Where they did both sup and banquet."





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"Banqueting" Quotes from Famous Books



... straw, and let them dry upon sheets of paper a quarter of an hour, then tie them in knots or what pretty fashion you please, and when they be dry, boil them in rose-water and sugar; it is an excellent sort of banqueting. ...
— The accomplisht cook - or, The art & mystery of cookery • Robert May
... of a large though not a magnificent palace of the kings of Great Britain:—[This was Whitehall, which was burnt down, except the banqueting-house, 4th January, 1698.]—from the stairs of this palace the court used to take water, in the summer evenings, when the heat and dust prevented their walking in the park: an infinite number of open boats, filled with the court and city beauties, ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... but it's all over! it's all over! Take the body the back way to the banqueting-house; I must run ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. IV • Maria Edgeworth
... seen her, already, and now I saw him. He lived only in memory, and his memory was a spacious and stately palace. But he did not oftenest frequent the banqueting hall, where were endless hospitality and feasting—nor did he loiter much in reception rooms, where a throng of new visitors was forever swarming—nor did he feed his vanity by haunting the apartment in which were stored the trophies of his varied triumphs—nor ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... than anywhere else Queen Victoria was on the track of her great predecessor, Queen Elizabeth, while the virgin queen was still the maiden princess, considerably oppressed by her stern sister Queen Mary. Queen Victoria inspected all the relics of the interesting old place, "the vineyard," the banqueting-room fallen down into a stable, and the oak still linked with the name ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler


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