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Definition of Banquet
Banquet

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.

To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

To partake of a dessert after a feast.

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Banquet Quotations

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Rosalind Russell

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

Banquet Translations

banquet in Dutch is banket, feestmaal
banquet in French is banquet
banquet in German is Bankett, Festessen
banquet in Italian is banchetto
banquet in Latin is epulor, epulo
banquet in Spanish is banquete
banquet in Swedish is kalas, bankett


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