How to pronounce“banquet”in English
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Definitions of “banquet”
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
“True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; / It is a banquet to me.”
A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
To participate in a banquet; to feast.
“I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: / The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: / Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.”
To have dessert after a feast.
“1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907, Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.”
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