junket

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1. junket - Noun

2. junket - Verb

Meaning

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

A feast; an entertainment.

To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

To give entertainment to; to feast.

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"Bunches of grapes,” says Timothy; "Pomegranates pink,” says Elaine; "A junket of cream and a cranberry tart For me,” says Jane. Walter de la Mare

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind. Michael Nesmith

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer. Miley Cyrus

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. Dean Rusk

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film. Debra Winger

many summer excursions to the shore Source: Internet

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