juncate

Noun

junket (plural junkets)

1. (obsolete) A basket.
2. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
   • I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].1818, John Keats, Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
3. (obsolete) A delicacy.
   • […] though bride and bridegroom wants
     For to supply the places at the table,
     You know there wants no junkets at the feast.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. A feast or banquet.
   • Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].1790, Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, volume III, number 124, page 95
5. A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
   • It did strike him as odd, perhaps, that merchants did not dare to go on a junket or plan a congenial dinner without pretending to themselves that it had some business significance.1922, Christopher Morley, chapter 9, in Where the Blue Begins
6. A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

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