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banquet

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English

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State Banquet.—Serving the Peacock.—Facsimile of a woodcut in an edition of Virgil, folio, published at Lyons in 1517.
A Chinese painting of an outdoor banquet, from the era of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).

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Etymology

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From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: băngˈkwĭt; IPA(key): /ˈbæŋkwɪt/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈbæŋkɪt/[1]
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Noun

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banquet (plural banquets)

  2. A large celebratory meal; a feast.
    Synonym: reception
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
      True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,
      And in his commendations I am fed; / It is a banquet to me.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 5:4:
      And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
    • [1715], [John] Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ix, page 40:
      So comes a Reck’ning when the Banquet’s o’er, / The dreadful Reck’ning, and Men ſmile no more.
    • 1798, [William Wordsworth], “Nutting”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], →OCLC:
      [T]he hazels rose / Tall and erect, with milk-white clusters hung, / A virgin scene! — A little while I stood, / Breathing with such suppression of the heart / As joy delights in; and, with wise restraint / Voluptuous, fearless of a rival, eyed / The banquet, […]
    • c. 1870, Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 229:
      Who goes to dine must take his feast / Or find the banquet mean; / The table is not laid without / Till it is laid within.
    • 1933, Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet‎[2]:
      And the sun, even as you and I and all there is, sits in equal honour at the banquet of the Prince whose door is always open and whose board is always spread.
    • 1972 March 6, “China Coverage: Sweet and Sour”, in Time:
      The thrill of discovery quickly wore off. TV crews and reporters were soon scurrying frantically to satisfy the medium’s insatiable appetite for novelty, sometimes achieving massive inanity instead. During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents—who had not been given menus—variously described those little orange balls decorating the table’s center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines.)
  3. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
  4. (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
    • c. 1624–1625 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Vnnaturall Combat. A Tragedie. […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
      Wee'll dine in the great roome, but let the muſick / And banquet be prepar'd here.
    • 1874, Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
      At Inverkeithing the teetotalers objected to this profligate expenditure, so the Provost and magistrates manfully paid for their “cookies” out of their own pockets. At Dunse, instead of a cake and wine banquet, there was “a fruit conversazione,” whatever that may be.

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Descendants

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  • → Scottish Gaelic: bangaid (Canadian)

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Verb

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banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting or banquetting, simple past and past participle banqueted or banquetted)

  1. (intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  2. (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
    • 1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907,[3]
      Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.
  3. (transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

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References

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  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 7.34, page 215.

Catalan

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 Banquet on Catalan Wikipedia

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French banquet.

Noun

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banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. banquet (celebratory meal)

Etymology 2

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From banc +‎ -et.

Noun

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banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. small bench

Further reading

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French

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 Banquet on French Wikipedia

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic bank (“bench”) / Lombardic panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). Compare Old French banquet, which only meant "small bench", from the same Proto-Germanic source.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. banquet

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