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Synonyms for banquets

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bang-kwit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋ kwɪt

Définition of banquets

Origin :
  • 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 meals;" the meaning has entirely reversed. As a verb from 1510s.
  • noun formal dinner, usually ceremonial
Example sentences :
  • The king was gracious, and thereafter she held his feet at all the banquets.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • The abominations of the banquets of Belshazzar and Cleopatra were re-enacted there.
  • Extract from : « Clarimonde » by Thophile Gautier
  • To what other banquets will our leading Histrion be invited?
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 » by Various
  • Operas, plays, balls, and banquets followed in dazzling succession.
  • Extract from : « The Infernal Marriage » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • I know that there will be festivities, and balls, and banquets, given there at——chose!
  • Extract from : « The Home » by Fredrika Bremer
  • At the feast horse-flesh, once the food of the gods at banquets, was eaten.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Hallowe'en » by Ruth Edna Kelley
  • She daily gave the most wonderful festivals and banquets in the Italian fashion.
  • Extract from : « Lucretia Borgia » by Ferdinand Gregorovius
  • Often he would go to Banquets that cost as much as Ten a Throw.
  • Extract from : « The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) » by Various
  • How these banquets were provided was always a mystery to outsiders.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • They were chiefly employed for entertainments, and the banquets of the wealthy.
  • Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy

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