Crossword clues for junketing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To give entertainment to; to feast.
The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.
--Walpole.
Junketing \Jun"ket*ing\, n.
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A feast or entertainment; a revel.
All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors.
--W. Irving.The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.
--South. The act or process of taking a junket[3].
Wiktionary
n. A celebratory feast or banquet. vb. (present participle of junket English)
WordNet
n. taking an excursion for pleasure
Usage examples of "junketing".
Charis declined it, of courseindeed, nothing would prevail upon her to go junketing abroad under these circumstances!
He little dreamed till then, not he, that there had been banquetings and junketings, secret doings and deep drinkings at his expense.
Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.