Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
banquet . - noun A piece of wood on which bricklayers cut their bricks to the size proper for the place into which they are about to lay them.
- noun A formation of ore found on the Witwatersrand in the Transvaal, South Africa.
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Examples
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Some entrees are lackluster: the best were roast chicken ($22), meatloaf ($19), and a grilled lamb sirloin ($24); best desserts, a rare stone fruit crisp that really is crisp ($8), and a Dutch-inspired dessert called banket, a lush combination of almond paste and flaky pastry ($8).
NYT > Home Page By JULIA MOSKIN 2011
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The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a sweetmeat, known in Dutch as "banket," resembling almond hard-bake.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Here we read of a dinner-party, or "banket," at which the conversation was entirely about music.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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The proportion of gold in the quartz is not particularly high, nor are the veins of a remarkable thickness, but the peculiarity of the Rand mines lies in the fact that throughout this 'banket' formation the metal is so uniformly distributed that the enterprise can claim a certainty which is not usually associated with the industry.
The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The proportion of gold in the quartz is not particularly high, nor are the veins of a remarkable thickness, but the peculiarity of the Rand mines lies in the fact that throughout this 'banket' formation the metal is so uniformly distributed that the enterprise can claim a certainty which is not usually associated with the industry.
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I wuz eeting an affernuun snak ov teh dutch banket almond paste wrapped in nommy pastree.
Liberty Medical - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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In that thei prepare a table with a banket: at the whiche thei sette the deade bodye in his beste appareille.
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And bothe the flesshes beinge mingled together, thei fall to the banket.
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Thei be euer on horsebacke, whether thei go to the fielde or the banket, to bye, to selle, to commune of aughte with their friende, or to do any thing that is to be done.
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If he to banket bid his friends, he will not shrinke On them at dinner to bestow a douzen kindes of drinke: Such licour as they haue, and as the countrey giues, But chiefly two, one called Kuas, whereby the Mousiket
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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