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
And bothe the flesshes beinge mingled together, thei fall to the banket.
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
Deposits similar to the Witwatersrand banket occur in Zululand, and also on the Gold Coast of Africa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
See where her seruitors passe through the hall Bearing a banket, Dido is not farre.
From The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Marlowe, Christopher
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