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
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
They haue many sortes of meats and drinkes, when they banket and delight in eating of grosse meates, and stinking fishe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard
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
After the masse was done ther was a greate banket and fest and the ladyes of England highly entreteyned.
From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles
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