Crossword clues for regale
regale
- Wine and dine with what's on plate and beer
- To begin with, Edward Elgar composed to entertain
- Throw a party for
- Throw a feast for
- Eat, drink and be merry
- Throw a big party for
- Entertain with extravagance
- Put on a feast
- Lavishly entertain
- Entertain in style
- Entertain extravagantly
- Show a really good time
- Show a good time to
- Host a feast, say
- Highly amuse
- Give delight to
- Give a feast
- Entertain thoroughly
- Entertain, as with stories
- Wine and dine
- Ply with food and drink
- Delight with food
- Feast
- Amuse, as with anecdotes
- Fete
- Treat splendidly
- Entertain lavishly
- Entertain in a festive manner
- Entertain grandly
- Feed feasters
- Entertain splendidly
- Delight with amusement
- Entertain festively
- Entertain royally
- Entertain sumptuously
- Generously provide claret, perhaps leaving Edwin with wind
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regale \Re*gale"\, v. i. To feast; t? fare sumtuously.
Regale \Re*gale"\, n. [F. r['e]gal. See Regale, v. t.]
A sumptuous repast; a banquet.
--Johnson. Cowper.
Two baked custards were produced as additions to the
regale.
--E. E. Hale.
Regale \Re*ga"le\ (r?*g?"l?), n. [LL. regale, pl. regalia, fr.
L. regalis: cf. F. r['e]gale. See Regal.]
A prerogative of royalty. [R.]
--Johnson.
Regale \Re*gale"\ (r?*g?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regaled (-g?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Regaling.] [F. r['e]galer, Sp. regalar to regale, to caress, to melt, perhaps fr. L. regalare to thaw (cff. Gelatin), or cf. Sp. gala graceful, pleasing address, choicest part of a thing (cf. Gala), or most likely from OF. galer to rejoice, gale pleasure.] To enerta?n in a regal or sumptuous manner; to enrtertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"entertain splendidly," 1650s, from French régaler "to entertain or feast," from Old French regale, rigale, from gale "merriment," from galer "make merry" (see gallant (adj.)). Influenced in Old French by se rigoler "amuse oneself, rejoice," of unknown origin. Italian regalo is from French. Related: Regaled; regaling.
Wiktionary
n. A feast, meal. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To please or entertain (someone). (from 17th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. (from 17th c.) 3 (context obsolete intransitive English) To feast ((term: on), (term: with) something). (17th-19th c.) 4 (context figurative English) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
WordNet
v. provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" [syn: treat]
Usage examples of "regale".
Between bites he regaled Aganippe with tales of his conquests -- each exploit reminding him of another.
Rom had shared a rare moment of rapport in their guilty, private pleasure every time Dukat came to the bar with whoever his latest comfort woman was and regaled her with the story of Admiral Alkene, ending with a grandiloquent toast and salute to the mural.
Ron and Hermione were still regaling Draco Malfoy with the tale of the almost-blackmail scheme that the twins had tried with Ludo Bagman, and Bagman trying to help Harry win the tournament because of his other debts to the goblins.
In the evening I called on Don Diego, where I was regaled with the excellent ratafia I had given the mother, and the whole family began to speak of the obligations Spain owed to the Count of Aranda.
Mardocheus said he should like to die too, and began regaling himself on it with evident relish.
They had worked together for many years and were good friends, but when they started bouncing insults off each other, scoring points, bemoaning, arguing, philosophising and regaling anyone within earshot with anecdotes and opinions, nothing could be done.
Germans have as characteristically made use of the beauty left over, and have built a Bierhaus where they may regale both soul and sense in the presence of the cataract.
Tinor placed before him a calabash of poee-poee, from which the stranger regaled himself, alternating every mouthful with some rapid exclamation, which was eagerly caught up and echoed by the crowd that completely filled the house.
The count regaled us choicely, and amused the two girls by giving them rods and lines and letting them fish.
He often regaled Clair with the exploits of his hauntings, but also used being a ghost as an excuse for not publishing.
Sometimes, actually, I do feel like having fun, pretending to be charming, putting on my suit with the toxic tennis shoes, regaling local environmentalists with war stories, describing the variety of crap they have in their tap water.
The Master Magus had judged Xalan not recovered enough to participate in the geomancy, so he now sat on a fur rug regaling the Commander and Bochas the rhetor with an account of my introduction to goats.
I did not care that anyone should be able to say that he had regaled one who was unknown to him.
Charisse regales us with tales of her exploits at Lusus Naturae, a tiny software company that is trying to make computers understand when people talk to them, and her art, which is making pictures that you look at on a computer.
Jennifer and I were sitting in Rose Cottage with the others, clue in one hand, ogham alphabet in the other, Jennifer regaling them with the story of our adventure.