banqueteer

plural banqueteers

1. One who attends a banquet.

   The banqueteers forsook their scented alcoves, and men of all stations withdrew from the outlying sectors […]

   1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 101, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode

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   The dinner and the soiree too were done, The supper too discuss’d, the dames admired, The banqueteers had dropp’d off one by one— The song was silent, and the dance expired:

   1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XVI

   After a trumpet had given the starting sign each banqueteer tried to empty his jug as fast as possible, which must have been quite a feat, since a jug contained about three liters of wine!

   1983, Jan N. Bremmer, The Early Greek Concept of the Soul, Princeton University Press, page 112

   Synonyms: banqueter, banquetgoer, feaster

present singular third person banqueteers · participle present banqueteering · participle past banqueteered · past banqueteered

1. To attend a banquet or banquets (particularly as a frequent or habitual activity).

   I had been banqueteering and making speeches two or three times in every week for six months […]

   1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189