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
The certain life, with the exception of banket and a few other types of deposit, is that shown by the ore in sight, plus something for extension of the deposit beyond exposures.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
When she had appointed this taske unto Psyches, she departed to a great banket that was prepared that day.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
When they doo make any banket to a viceroy or to any embassadour, it is with so great cost and sumptuousness, that they spend a great substance therein.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza
See where her seruitors passe through the hall Bearing a banket, Dido is not farre.
From The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
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