banket

/ ˈbæŋkɪt /

noun

1. a gold-bearing conglomerate found in South Africa

Word History and Origins

Origin of banket¹

C19: from Dutch: a kind of almond hardbake, alluding to its appearance

Example Sentences

After the masse was done ther was a greate banket and fest and the ladyes of England highly entreteyned.

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And when the dansing was doone, the banket was serued in of two hundred dishes, with great plentie to euerie bodie.'

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But going to the castell to deliver it, we had answer that the governor slept and the secretary was biden out to a banket.

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So this night we arived at Fushamy at supper tyme; but our hostes sonne of Miaco met me per the way with a banket.

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And Cude Dono of Firando brought me a barso of wine and a banket, nifon catange.

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