repaster
repaster noun: one who takes a repast, or light meal.
Noun
repaster (plural repasters)
- One who takes a repast, or light meal.
- if any fellow of this house, being a commoner, or repaster, should, within the precincts of this house, wear any cloak, bootes and spurrs, or long hair, to pay for every offence 5s. for a fine, and also be put out of commons.1804, William Herbert, Antiquities of the Inns of court and chancery, page 311
- Order that "none of this company shall bring any repaster to the reader's drinking or dinner, the reader and stewards only excepted, upon pain of 10s.1896, Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Richard Arthur Roberts, A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records - Volume 1, page 239
Forms of repaster
| plural | repasters |
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Origin of repaster
From repast + -er.
Questions about repaster
- What does repaster mean?
- Repaster means one who takes a repast, or light meal.
- What part of speech is repaster?
- Repaster is a noun.
- What is the plural of repaster?
- The plural of repaster is repasters.
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