Hypertext Webster Gateway: "junket"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Junket \Jun"ket\, n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata
cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus
a rush. See 2d {Junk}, and cf. {Juncate}.]
1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
How Faery Mab the junkets eat. -- Milton.
Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. --
Chapman.
2. A feast; an entertainment.
A new jaunt or junket every night. -- Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Junket \Jun"ket\, v. i.
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes
applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the
public cost.
Job's children junketed and feasted together often. --
South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
junket
n 1: dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
2: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the
shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious
sashays into the field" [syn: {excursion}, {jaunt}, {outing},
{pleasure trip}, {expedition}, {sashay}]
v 1: go on a junket
2: provide a feast or banquet for [syn: {feast}, {banquet}]
3: partake in a feast or banquet [syn: {feast}, {banquet}]
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