repast
noun
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating.
repasts
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present tense formof repast (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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After this first meal, I like to maul the rest of the meat off the bones to fashion into all manner of repasts throughout the week.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
As a journalist, he brought not only a good appetite to his work but also a lyrical and dynamic approach to his accounts of notable repasts.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
All these repasts make me think about my mother, Winkie.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
Yes, at first, well-heeled travelers took off in these new flying machines, white-gloved hands on their matching luggage, and prepared to enjoy civilized repasts seated at tables.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2010
In the first—the dining room, as they called it—there was a stove which boiled the water for their coffee and tea, and where Delly concocted their light repasts.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
