Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)

Usage examples of banqueting.

The rest of the bridal party was still in the hall, but the wedding guests had gone back into the banqueting-room, whence they could see through the open windows what was going on.

The Stadtholder gave curt acknowledgement to the greetings of Mynheer Beresteyn, of his family, and of his friends, and then strode deliberately into the banqueting-hall.

Before he could call to her she was already by his side, and in an instant he had her by the hand and dragged her with him back into the banqueting-hall.

Curtly he bade the men bring lighted candles into the banqueting-hall.

A world of memories, grave and gay, swept over him as he entered the banqueting-hall, where, but for his many misfortunes — as he callously called h is crimes — he would one day have sat at the bridegroom's table beside Gilda, his plighted wife.

Moreover, to provide supper for his Magnificence and mynheer in the banqueting-hall, and for the rest of the company in some other suitable room, without delay.

He rose without another word, and, avoiding the main door of the banqueting-hall, he went out by the back one, which gave on a narrow antechamber and thence on the service staircase.

With the fall of the candelabra, the vast banqueting hall had suddenly been plunged into semi-darkness.

To Stoutenburg, who watched her keenly while she crossed the hall, it seemed as if once she glanced round in the direction of the banqueting room, and craned her neck as if trying to catch whatever faint sound might be coming from there.

On each side of a large structure, which contained the state rooms and banqueting hall, three rows of pavilions of different sizes extended in symmetrical order.

He would have liked to leave the banqueting hall at once with a swingeing curse.

The walls and slanting roof of this quickly-built and movable banquetinghall, consisted of a strong, impenetrable carpet-stuff, woven at Thebes, and afterwards dyed purple at Tanis by the Phoenicians.

A high exterior flight of steps led from the garden--which had been created out of a waste--to the vestibule, out of which the banqueting hall opened.

Thick carpets, which seemed to have transported the sea-shore on to the dry land-for their pale blue ground was strewn with a variety of shells, fishes, and water plants-covered the floor of the banqueting hall, in which three hundred seats were placed by the tables, for the nobles of the kingdom and the officers of the troops.

Ameni arrived at the palace before them, and entered the banqueting-hall just as Ani was assigning a place to each of his guests.