Meaning of Junket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A basket.
   obsolete
2. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
3. A delicacy.
   obsolete
4. A feast or banquet.
5. A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
6. Ellipsis of press junket.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

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Examples

“I love⟳ your meads, and I love⟳ your flowers, / And I love⟳ your junkets mainly […].”

“The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.”

“[…] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply⟳ the places at the table, You know⟳ there wants no junkets at the feast.”

“Goe streight, and take⟳ with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].”

“Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind⟳ ; and most Men have⟳ an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].”

“We're often in waiting / At junket or feting, / And sometimes attend⟳ an interment—”

“It did strike⟳ him as odd, perhaps, that merchants did not dare to go on a junket or plan⟳ a congenial dinner without pretending to themselves that it had some business significance.”

“An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press⟳ Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.”

“Every time anything of note⟳ happens – any time there is a junket or a new actor is cast⟳ – the issue⟳ will be front and centre.”

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