Junkets
junket (?), n. (Formerly alsojuncate, 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 , v. i. To feast; tobanquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously
to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Jobs children junketed and feasted together
often. South.
junket , v. t. (imp. p. pr. 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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