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Junket

Junket (junket)
n.(?)
Jun"ket
[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.

Junket

Junket (junket)
v. i.
Jun"ket
  1. 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.

Junket

Junket (junket)
v. t.
Jun"ket
  1. 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.













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