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Junketing   Listen
noun
Junketing  n.  
1.
A feast or entertainment; a revel. "All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors." "The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar."
2.
The act or process of taking a junket (3).






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"Junketing" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Bah, what do I care for Sermaise! He killed him in fair fight. But within an hour, Guillemette,—within a half-hour after leaving me, he is junketing on church-porches with that trollop. They were not there for holy-water. Midnight, look you! And he swore to me—chaff, chaff! His honor is chaff, Guillemette, and his heart a bran-bag. Oh, swine, filthy swine! Eh, well, let the ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell

... the rest of the way with the "Iron Brigade," and no company of errant knights, perhaps, ever had such a junketing as those same lusty troopers. No sooner did they set foot in the enchanted land of roses than a damsel in distress, the Republica Mexicana herself, came to them for succor. Or more literally, a dissident governor, backed by the authority of President Juarez, offered Shelby ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... declined the ruffian's terms or his proffered service, the defection of Jack and his men was the talk of thousands of tongues immediately. The house negroes, in their midnight gallops about the country, in search of junketing or sweethearts, brought and spread news over amazingly wide districts. They had a curious knowledge of the incidents of the march for a fortnight at least after its commencement. They knew and laughed at the cheats practised on the army, for horses, ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... fort of Chimney, and said to Pantagruel, I smell a rat; there will be here the devil upon two sticks, or I am much out. These worshipful Chitterlings may chance to mistake you for Shrovetide, though you are not a bit like him. Let us once in our lives leave our junketing for a while, and put ourselves in a posture to give 'em a bellyful of fighting, if they would be at that sport. There can be no false Latin in this, said Xenomanes; Chitterlings are still Chitterlings, always ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... in the mean time was going on spending her money in junketing. She was, besides, no longer satisfied with taking her spoonful of brandy in every dish of tea; she found herself uncomfortable, she said, unless she took every morning fasting a full glass of the good cordial ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth



Words linked to "Junketing" :   traveling, travelling, travel, junket



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