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 Marchionesse of Monferrato, with a banket of Hennes, and certaine pleasant wordes, repressed the fond loue of Philip the French Kynge.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
They passe manie times a hundreth sundrie dishes, when that the estate of the person that is inuited, or of him that maketh the banket, dooth require.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
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
But the poore soules made their reconinge there wythout their hoaste, faylinge halfe the price of their banket.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
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