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banquet

[bang-kwit] / ˈbæŋ kwɪt /
NOUN
formal dinner, usually ceremonial
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Sher and his aide and friend Kip Lipper attended a 2010 banquet in San Francisco at which the California League of Conservation Voters honored Justice Newsom with the Byron Sher Lifetime Achievement Award.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

A 12-course banquet of huff and puff finally brought to an end by one of the few bouts of coherent football that led to Ryan Naderi's winner.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

Leonor said her sister and brother, who co-own a banquet hall in the city of Commerce, soon lost a year’s worth of bookings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

“This is a lovely banquet, Balekin, son of Eldred,” Queen Orlagh says.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Industry executives say caterers now clamor for foie gras to add a luxurious touch to weddings and banquets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

From there they started staging events to raise money for heritage projects – and success in that led to the banquets.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

For the LFI's Fourreau, the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature".

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Describing himself as a Catholic from the impoverished aristocracy and an entrepreneur, he says it would offend against both his ethics and his business sense to exclude people from the banquets.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

They’re having their banquets and the winner is being paid and there is cheering and I still have four days to go to finish.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

He met with Lao president Bounnhang Vorachit, was feted at a welcome banqueted, where he toasted to a relationship he said would “mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos”.

From The Guardian Sep. 6, 2016

After his installation Bishop Gorman banqueted with priests and assisting bishops.

From Time Magazine Archive

In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“The extravagant gifting and banqueting and entertaining that fueled one big sector of imported wine has evaporated,” said Ian Ford, founding partner of Nimbility, an Asia-based beverage consulting firm.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

As photos on the academy website show, this was the last of the banqueting Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2023

It acted as a banqueting hall - though was so large other smaller halls had to be built nearby for some occasions and the royal household usually ate in one of those.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2022

Or, oh — I want Keats, Byron, Rachel Carson, Dickens, Darwin — and, oh, I so want Churchill and, and, and — my dinner party will need a banqueting hall to fit them all in!

From New York Times Oct. 14, 2021

Whatever had taken place in the banqueting hall after my departure, there was now a genuinely celebratory atmosphere amongst the guests.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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