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Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Junketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Junketing}.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
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The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. --Walpole.
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Junket \Jun"ket\, n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata
cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus
a rush. See 2d {Junk}, and cf. {Juncate}.]
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1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
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How Faery Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.
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Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets. --Chapman.
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2. A feast; an entertainment.
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A new jaunt or junket every night. --Thackeray.
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3. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the
traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information
relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a
public official at government expense. The term is
sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such
trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are
therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional
junket to a tropical country.
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Junket \Jun"ket\, v. i.
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes
applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the
public cost.
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Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
--South.
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