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Handsome repast
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banquet
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "feast, sumptuous entertainment," from French banquet (15c.; in Old French only "small bench"), from Old Italian banchetto , diminutive of banco "bench;" originally a snack eaten on a bench (rather than at table), hence "a slight repast between ...
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A banquet (; ) is a large meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts . It usually serves a purpose such as a charitable gathering, a ceremony, or a celebration , and is often preceded or followed by speeches in honor of someone.
Usage examples of banquet.
Bright, who had preceded us and stood in the midst like a General of Division, ordering autocratically and issuing commands for fresh supplies, as if he was going to banquet the southern district en musse.
Toli stood alone on the bartizan outside the banquet hall, overlooking a portion of the garden.
Everything about her, however--the crowded room, the bedizened banquet, the savour of dishes, the drama of figures--ministered to the joy of life.
Brian Boru had used it as his audience chamber as well as his banqueting hall, calculatedly awing visitors with an ostentatious display of gold cups and bejeweled goblets on every table in the room.
Lukien could see Trager and Breck waiting for them just outside the banquet room.
Trager and Breck into the banquet chamber, then asked the Reecians to proceed.
With a shooing gesture he ushered Trager and Breck into the banquet chamber, then asked the Reecians to proceed.
Cimmerian Fleet to a banquet, to be held at my Melos villa this evening.
Lord Jesus Christ, Himself the guest and banquet, is both the partaker and what is eaten.
I was less a partaker of their ploys and banquets, either at birth, bridal, or burial.
The doors at his back buckled inward and gave him egress, the darkened room a ghost-like configuration of white-clothed banquet tables bordered by empty chairs, the phasm of Nazi heydays everywhere.
She and the leading nobles of her company and the three envoys from Persia and we three Polos and most of the Khanbalik court all sat down with Kubilai to a farewell banquet in the same vast chamber where we had enjoyed our welcoming banquet so long before.
This sort of stuff is just a necessary prequel to the main event, a formal reception and banquet to which he has devoted the full-time attention of four ghosts.
His name was Tyler Durden, and he was a movie projectionist with the union, and he was a banquet waiter at a hotel, downtown, and he gave me his phone number.
Egyptian banquet, and that there are horrid, rattly skeletons sitting in all those high, covered chairs.