banquet

Word origin

From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.

Used in a sentence

• “True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; / It is a banquet to me.”

• “And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

• “So comes a Reck’ning when the Banquet’s o’er, / The dreadful Reck’ning, and Men ſmile no more.”

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