2. Verb. (third-person singular of repast) ¹
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Definition of Repasts
1. repast [v] - See also: repast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repasts
Literary usage of Repasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America by Emmanuel Domenech (1860)
"repasts OF THE INDIANS. ROOTS USED BT THEM AS FOOD. ... The Indians do not take
their repasts at fixed hours; they eat when they are hungry, that is to say, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The pride of royalty was humbled in the dust ; he took his repasts on the ground ;
and the disorder of his hair expressed the grief and anxiety of his mind. ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"SINGULARITIES OBSERVED BY VARIOUS NATIONS IN THEIR repasts. The Maldivian inlanders
eat alone. They retire into the most hidden parts of their houses; ..."
4. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"Reliefs representing repasts. — Lekythos-shaped Tombstones.—Votive Reliefs.
— Vignettes on Public Decrees. WHILE the records of statues of gods and ..."
5. The Pantropheon, Or, History of Food, and Its Preparation, from the Earliest by Alexis Soyer (1853)
"VARIETY OF repasts. THE fertile country inhabited by the Jewish people ...
The extreme simplicity of the greater part of the Biblical repasts ought not to ..."
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