banquetting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]banquetting
- present participle and gerund of banquet
Noun
[edit]banquetting (countable and uncountable, plural banquettings)
- Alternative form of banqueting.
- 1587, Thomas Thomasius, “Apŏphŏrēta”, in Dictionarium Linguæ Latinæ et Anglicanæ, […], 2nd edition (1589), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Ex officina Iohannis Legatt, celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. […], →OCLC, signature E, verso, column 1:
- A newyeares gift, or a preſent. Alſo things giuen to gueſts, to be caried awaie with them at banquettings: pockettings.
- c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature K, verso:
- Come, come, Therſites help to trim my tent?
This night in banquetting muſt al be ſpent, away Patroclus.