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junketing
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To give entertainment to; to feast. [1913 Webster] The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. --Walpole. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Junketing \Jun"ket*ing\, n.
1. A feast or entertainment; a revel.
[1913 Webster]
All those snug junketings and public gormandizings
for which the ancient magistrates were equally
famous with their modern successors. --W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon
the altar. --South.
[1913 Webster]
2. The act or process of taking a junket[3].
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