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Definition of Banqueting
1. Noun. Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).
Definition of Banqueting
1. Verb. (present participle of banquet) ¹
2. Noun. The act of holding a banquet for a person or group ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Banqueting
1. banquet [v] - See also: banquet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banqueting
Literary usage of Banqueting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old Royal Palace of Whitehall by Edgar Sheppard (1902)
"CHAPTER III THE banqueting HOUSE THE banqueting House or Hall is the only ...
There are many references in this work to a banqueting House that Queen ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The interior of the banqueting House has been occupied as a chapel since the time of
... But the great attraction of the banqueting House is the ceiling, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"SUMPTUOUS SUPPERS, AND PRODI- GALL banqueting TIMOTHY, the son of Conon, captain
of the Athenians, leaving his sumptuous fare and royall banqueting, ..."
4. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1895)
"Jones within six months was ready to begin upon his new banqueting House, ...
It is remarkable that the account was Detail of banqueting House. ..."
5. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette: Delivered by John Quincy Adams (1835)
"And upon that day of the banqueting at Dresden, the star of Napoleon culminated
from the Equator. Thenceforward it was to descend with motion far more rapid ..."
6. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"The Eleans likewise have a banqueting place within the Prytaneum, opposite to
that building which contains the Vestal hearth: and in this banqueting place ..."
7. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1899)
"Two masked executioners awaited the King as he mounted the scaffold, which had
been erected outside one of the windows of the banqueting House at Whitehall ..."
8. Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London: With Historical and by John Britton, Augustus Pugin (1838)
"In 1581, Queen Elizabeth added to it a banqueting-house, at the expense of £1700,
and most superbly ornamented it on occasion of the arrival of the ..."
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