junket

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A basket.
2. isim A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.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 […].”

3. isim A delicacy.

   “[…] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.”

4. isim 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 […].”

5. isim 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.”

6. isim Ellipsis of press junket.

   “An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.”

7. isim 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.
8. fiil To attend a junket; to feast.

   “Be careful that you wast not, or spoil your Ladies, or Mistresses goods, neither sit you up junketing a nights, after your Master and Mistress be abed.”

9. fiil To go on a junket; to travel.

   “Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.”

10. fiil To regale or entertain with a feast.