banket
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of banket
C19: from Dutch: a kind of almond hardbake, alluding to its appearance
Example Sentences
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For more seasonally correct snacking, she suggested an almond banket, which is similar to a letter cookie but with more almond paste and shaped like a flagpole.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020
In that thei prepare a table with a banket: at the whiche thei sette the deade bodye in his beste appareille.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard
Aug. 21st, the Erle and Cowntess of Derby had a banket at my lodging at the colledge hora 4½.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
And, finally, experts declare that some of the rich banket beds of the Transvaal became auriferous by the infiltration of water containing a minute proportion of gold in solution.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert
The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a sweetmeat, known in Dutch as "banket," resembling almond hard-bake.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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