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banquets

NOUN
formal dinner, usually ceremonial
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Kim, absorbing North Korea’s first major combat losses in many decades, has lavished surviving families with banquets, gold medals and new Pyongyang apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The company also organised mass holidays and banquets for current and potential investors.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Louis XVI — the Sun King — and Queen Marie Antoinette held lavish banquets at Versailles before they were beheaded during the French revolution.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

How would fellow merchants or visiting dignitaries know about these luxe banquets once all those enviable perishables had been consumed?

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024

Parties every week, balls, banquets, beautiful girls, waltzing, dinners, a huge house, etc.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank



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