repast
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The work accelerated during Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims traditionally conduct a dawn-to-dusk fast broken by what in normal times would be a sumptuous repast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
Not long afterward, another male red fox entered the scene of the crime; the purloined repast had been his.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
With a few final prayers, they head to the St. Regis New York for the after party . . . er, repast.
From Salon ● May 22, 2023
When they host, however, it's a more modest repast, not because of finances, but simply because they don't have much interest in cooking or baking.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021
“A delightful repast, delicately prepared and elegantly served,” he announced to no one in particular.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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After this first meal, I like to maul the rest of the meat off the bones to fashion into all manner of repasts throughout the week.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
A pineapple upside-down cake and an evening with Mitch McConnell would both be sweet repasts, except for the evening with Mitch McConnell.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
As a journalist, he brought not only a good appetite to his work but also a lyrical and dynamic approach to his accounts of notable repasts.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
Yes, at first, well-heeled travelers took off in these new flying machines, white-gloved hands on their matching luggage, and prepared to enjoy civilized repasts seated at tables.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2010
It was about this time that we have the first record of a social party in our city now so celebrated for its elegant entertainments and luxurious repasts.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
It can then be copied and repasted somewhere else in an instant.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019
When these things are ready, the pasted cover should be examined and repasted if it has dried in any place.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
So far as he could possibly detect, not one had been altered or repasted on the end.
From A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele
Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So after repasting themselves, they made them ready for the journey with takeing repose that night.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson
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