comessation

Definitions

Feasting, banqueting.

countable, historical, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there […] where I see⟳ no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?”

“Most essays deal⟳ with literary sources, but food symbolism for Saint Catherine of Siena (Luce d’Eramo), famine in chronicles (Corinne Lucas), and depictions of sacred and profane comessation in sixteenth-century art (Hélène Albani) add⟳ variety to the mix⟳.”

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