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Word entry · 6 letters

junket

Best crossword clue

"Official pleasure trip"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/Part of speech noun, verbSorted ejkntuStarts with JEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1J2U3N4K5E6T

Definitions

  1. a trip taken by an official at public expense

Word origin

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.

Used in a sentence

  • I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].
  • The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.
  • […] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.

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