banquet

State Banquet.--Serving the Peacock.--Facsimile of a woodcut in an edition of Virgil, folio, published at Lyons in 1517.

Meanings

Noun

A large celebratory meal; a feast.
A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
A ceremonial dinner party for many people.

Verb

To participate in a banquet; to feast.
To have dessert after a feast.
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

Origin

From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto, from banco, from Langobardic *bank, *panch, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Akin to Old High German bank, banch, Old English benċ. More at bank, bench.

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