junketing

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junketing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Junketing.]
     To give entertainment to; to feast.
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           The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
           in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. --Walpole.
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  Junketing \Jun"ket*ing\, n.
     1. A feast or entertainment; a revel.
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              All those snug junketings and public gormandizings
              for which the ancient magistrates were equally
              famous with their modern successors.  --W. Irving.
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              The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon
              the altar.                            --South.
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     2. The act or process of taking a junket[3].
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junketing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  junketing
      n 1: taking an excursion for pleasure