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Trip with a per diem, perhaps
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junket
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Junket is a company that made prepackaged powdered dessert mixes and ingredients for making various curdled , milk-based foods, such as rennet custard, ice cream and rennet tablets. In 1874, Christian Hansen founded Hansen's Laboratorium in Denmark to make ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "basket in which fish are caught or carried," from Medieval Latin iuncata "rush basket," perhaps from Latin iuncus "rush." Shifted meaning by 1520s to "feast, banquet," probably via notion of a picnic basket, which led to extended sense of "pleasure ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A basket. 2 A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet. 3 (context obsolete English) A delicacy. 4 A feast or banquet. 5 A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting ...
Usage examples of junket.
In the past, those dinosaur birds might have flown over Junket, or whatever was there before the town was.
VW and careened onto the two-lane road that ran along the Junket River into Crane Harbor.
How Poppy, in an orange sweater, orange lipstick, tight jeans, high-heeled sandals, and what looked like half the dime store jewelry in Junket, managed to look remotely glamorous at her age was more than Heather could understand.
Whenever it closed down, depending on whether the political outcry was for live trees or lumber, she fiddled with an article about how things got named up and down the river between Junket and Crane Harbor, along the coast between Port James and Slicum Bay.
Her head spun a little: Lydia seemed to straighten high as the moon, as long as the Junket River in her black stockings and heels.
Half the garbage in the Junket dump whirled out, a flood of debris that swooped in the wind and tumbled and soared and snagged, piece by piece, against the thing at the cliff edge.
The truth is, all that laughter up in the lounge has a slightly nervous ring to it, and it is no coincidence that this junket, under discussion for so many years, was put together so swiftly in the past two months.
The junket had spent the afternoon at a ramshackle kraal, actually little more than a shantytown.
Gregg, Tachyon, and the other political members of the junket were in attendance.
For Dad, maybe a members-only junket with high-stakes games and even some exotic companionship.
Jane had learned she was also a gambler, and she needed help for a man she had met on a junket to Las Vegas.
Litsi, the prince currently diverting Danielle to a fifteenth-century junket, was her own nephew.
He accompanied Daddy on some of the foreign junkets and figured out what was going on.
Charis declined it, of courseindeed, nothing would prevail upon her to go junketing abroad under these circumstances!
Congress exempt themselves from the laws they impose on us, pass their midnight pay raises, overdraw their accounts at the House Bank, and then take a junket to some exotic Caribbean island with some lobbyists.