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banquet

noun as in formal dinner, usually ceremonial

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Earlier this month, a wedding banquet in China’s southwestern Sichuan province featured 300 guests.

From Fortune

You can’t always eat what the animals eatIn the snow-covered landscape, a few stray berries may look like a banquet to a starving survivor.

A police department in Georgia, for example, once spent $227,000 on an armored personnel carrier, and a sheriff in New Mexico splashed out $4,600 for an awards banquet.

He was renowned as the organizer of the Big Ten party, an annual holiday bash he threw with nine other attorneys at Santia Hall, a banquet space in nearby Keego Harbor.

Increased state enforcement will also target banquet halls, nightclubs and other venues that host gatherings.

The head banquet man at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City started serving the concoction as a menu staple in 1938.

The banquet was paid for with public funds, and taxpayers were understandably upset.

A table creaking under the weight of a Christmas banquet, a classic celebration of binge eating and drinking.

Another island tale purports that there was once a banquet arranged at the manor for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

A series of staircases winds under the lobby and opens onto a lavish banquet room, at once classical, futuristic, and whimsical.

My chief attended the banquet and I remained at home to hear the news when he returned.

After the formal proclamation was issued the function terminated with a banquet given to 200 insurgent notabilities.

Baltasar's profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.

During the banquet the room was filled with people of fashion, who went to see the grandees eat and drink.

The fourth scene, to the extreme right of the vault, represents the funeral banquet in honor of Vibia.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to banquet, such as: feast, festivity, meal, reception, fete, and regale.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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