junketing

junketing

1. present participle and gerund of junket

junketing (plural junketings)

1. A celebratory feast or banquet.
   • 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Eastbourne Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:

     The usual junketings of the times attended the opening of the line.

   • 1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness‎, London: W. Morden, Book 4, Chapter 5, p. 110:

     Which things though not so substantially performed, are notwithstanding in some measure imitated by Witches and Magicians, I mean in their junketings; whose viands are observed to afford so little satisfaction to nature, that they leave oftentimes the partakers of them as weak and faint almost as if they had eaten nothing […]

   • 1710, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq”, in The Tatler‎, volume 5, number 12, London: John Nutt, published 1712, page 62:

     I have already been invited to Two Christenings, and several Junketings, which I hope will be no Reflection upon my Character, having heard, that you your self, Sir, will take a chirping Cup upon Occasion.

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss‎, Book 5, Chapter 2:

     […] think o’ them poor women up i’ the villages there, as niver stir a hundred yards from home,—it ’ud be a pity for anybody to buy up their bargains. Lors, it’s as good as a junketing to ’em when they see me wi’ my pack, an’ I shall niver pick up such bargains for ’em again.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 8 September, 1928, in Nigel Nicholson and Joanne Trautmann (eds.), The Letters of Virginia Woolf, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 529,

     You see, dearest Creature, being now in the pink and prime of health, I could sit up all night: we might go to moonlight ruins, café’s, dances, plays, junketings: converse for ever; sleep only while the moon covers herself for an instant with a thin veil […]