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banquet

[bang-kwit] / ˈbæŋ kwɪt /
NOUN
formal dinner, usually ceremonial
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The new Pizzamania will operate in the front area of the large Maggie’s Pub building, while the pub will move operations into the banquet hall, Barritt said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

At an evening banquet on Monday, Xi praised relations between both countries, saying that China and North Korea are "linked by mountains and rivers and share a common destiny", state outlet Xinhua reported.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

When the rich lord turned sixty, he decided he would throw his most lavish banquet.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Her party is trying to get local authorities to stop the banquets, and has had an initial success in the Brittany town of Quimper.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Kim, absorbing North Korea’s first major combat losses in many decades, has lavished surviving families with banquets, gold medals and new Pyongyang apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

Many younger Chinese associate red wine with business deals and official banquets, hurting its cool factor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

The company also organised mass holidays and banquets for current and potential investors.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

For attending Shabbos dinners and banquets hosted by the burial society, I had acquired a secondhand dress coat.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

When he left Persia he took an alleged $200,000,000 worth of jewels with him; gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although these mean the rid of Latvian independence, the General Staff made the best of a sad occasion, banqueted their Soviet guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

That night, while the four Majesties banqueted at Sinaia, Rumania's greatest diplomat, Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, was seized in the Royal Chateau with acute inflammation of the middle ear.

From Time Magazine Archive

They knew just what the divine inhabitants did there, what they ate and drank and where they banqueted and how they amused themselves.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“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

The new measures include cancellation of non-parliamentary business activity such as tours and banqueting activity - in addition to asking MPs and peers to wear face coverings.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2021

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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