banket

British  

/ ˈbæŋkɪt /

noun

1. a gold-bearing conglomerate found in South Africa

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Etymology

Origin of banket

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

Example Sentences

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

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

So it chaunced at a banket that the sayed image of the dyuell was lost and gone.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

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

He attinded th' banket given be th' Prospurity Brigade at th' hotel where he's stoppin'.

From Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War by Dunne, Finley Peter