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Junket  v. t.  (past & past part. junketed; pres. part. junketing)  To give entertainment to; to feast. "The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors."






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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a rich, palatable quality and exquisitely smooth, creamy texture that the dinner becomes a pleasant memory. Junket ice cream can be prepared in a great variety of ways, or Junket may be served as a cold ...
— Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties - With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes • Janet McKenzie Hill

... pleasant a dish than papaw beaten to mush, saturated with the juice of lime, sweetened with sugar, and made fantastic with spices? What more enticing, than stewed mango—golden and syrupy—with junket white as marble; or fruit salad compact of pineapple, mango, papaw, granadilla, banana, with lime juice and ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... Mr. Cassidy, with a shamed and contrite face was powdering Mame's eye in preparation for their junket. From the flat above came the sound of a woman's voice, high-raised, a bumping, a stumbling and a shufling, a chair overturned—unmistakable sounds of ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry

... what there was? Devonshire cream, of course; and part of a large dish of junket, which is something like curds and whey. Lots of bread-and-butter and cheese, and half an apple-pudding. Also a great jug of cider and another of milk, and several half-full glasses, and no end of dirty plates, knives, ...
— The Adventures of A Brownie - As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock • Miss Mulock

... chop, or a very small piece of beefsteak or chicken; but with these there must be no gravies or dressings; a potato baked in the skin; raw tomatoes, if in season; apple sauce or cranberry; celery; junket, plain corn-starch, lemon jelly, plain cup-custard. From this list the diet must be arranged so as to give as much variety as possible from day to day. Midway between breakfast and dinner, and again ...
— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith

... then!" he raved. "He has marched with us all the time, and I have not seen him. Without an attachment in all these noble rooms! Mon Dieu! dogs may not enter even the grounds, but he must junket in the Chateau, all vile as he is ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... he thinks. "He invited me to stay, promising me wine and junket, and then he makes me walk from the station and listen to ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... skimmed milk, raw scraped beef, junket, and coddled white of egg or raw egg, bread crumbs, toasted, ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... with Junket Powder, as well as with Tablets. The new Junket Powder is already sweetened and flavored. Made in ...
— American Cookery - November, 1921 • Various

... succotash [U.S.], supawn [U.S.], trepang^, vanilla, waffle, walnut. table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote [Fr.], ordinary, entree. meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement^, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner [Fr.], bever^, tiffin^, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote [Fr.], dejeuner a la fourchette [Fr.]; hearty meal, square meal, substantial ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... here than in any other part of the child's diet. Up to six or seven years, only junket, plain rice pudding without raisins, plain custard and, not more than once a week, a small amount ...
— The Care and Feeding of Children - A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses • L. Emmett Holt

... who traveled much, but when he did, he had been accustomed to take her along. On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia—a junket that was to last ten ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... Stew made from Veribest Beef and Chicken, Lyonnaise Potatoes, Sliced Tomatoes, Custard Junket, Coffee. ...
— Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 - A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest • Various



Words linked to "Junket" :   junketeer, field trip, journeying, afters, junketing, dessert, jaunt, eat, outing, airing, expedition, travel, wine and dine, banquet, trip, sweet, excursion



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