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.]
1.
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
How Faery Mab the junkets eat.
Milton.
Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets.
Chapman.
2.
A feast; an entertainment.
A new jaunt or junket every night.
Thackeray.
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Jun"ket, v. i.
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
South.
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Jun"ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.
Walpole.
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