banquet
宴席,酒席,宴请,宴会
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Definitions
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- : a lavish meal; feast.
- : a ceremonious public dinner, especially one honoring a person, benefiting a charity, etc.
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ban·quet·ed, ban·quet·ing.
- : to entertain or regale with a banquet: They banqueted the visiting prime minister in grand style.
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ban·quet·ed, ban·quet·ing.
- : to have or attend a banquet; feast: They banqueted on pheasant, wild boar, and three kinds of fish.
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Earlier this month, a wedding banquet in China’s southwestern Sichuan province featured 300 guests.
You can’t always eat what the animals eatIn the snow-covered landscape, a few stray berries may look like a banquet to a starving survivor.
A police department in Georgia, for example, once spent $227,000 on an armored personnel carrier, and a sheriff in New Mexico splashed out $4,600 for an awards banquet.
He was renowned as the organizer of the Big Ten party, an annual holiday bash he threw with nine other attorneys at Santia Hall, a banquet space in nearby Keego Harbor.
Increased state enforcement will also target banquet halls, nightclubs and other venues that host gatherings.
The head banquet man at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City started serving the concoction as a menu staple in 1938.
The banquet was paid for with public funds, and taxpayers were understandably upset.
A table creaking under the weight of a Christmas banquet, a classic celebration of binge eating and drinking.
Another island tale purports that there was once a banquet arranged at the manor for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
A series of staircases winds under the lobby and opens onto a lavish banquet room, at once classical, futuristic, and whimsical.
My chief attended the and I remained at home to hear the news when he returned.