Meaning of comessation | Babel Free

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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