OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24241

junket

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
francachela
A feast or banquet.
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—
garbeo • vuelta
A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
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.
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