Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of banquet
nounbanquetting (countable and uncountable, plural banquettings)
plural banquettings
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of banqueting.
Come, come, Therſites help to trim my tent? This night in banquetting muſt al be ſpent, away Patroclus.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature K, verso1 more example
A newyeares gift, or a preſent. Alſo things giuen to gueſts, to be caried awaie with them at banquettings: pockettings.
1587, Thomas Thomasius, “Apŏphŏrēta”, in Dictionarium Linguæ Latinæ et Anglicanæ, […], 2nd edition (1589), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Ex officina Iohannis Legatt, celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. […], →OCLC, signature E, verso, column 1
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