banqueteer

banquet +‎ -eer

banqueteer (plural banqueteers)

1. One who attends a banquet.
   • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan‎, Canto XVI:

     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:

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

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

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

     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!

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• feaster

banqueteer (third-person singular simple present banqueteers, present participle banqueteering, simple past and past participle banqueteered)

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

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

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