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Regale   Listen
verb
Regale  v. t.  (past & past part. regaled; pres. part. regaling)  To entertain in a regal or sumptuous manner; to entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.



Regale  v. i.  To feast; to fare sumtuously.



noun
Regale  n.  A prerogative of royalty. (R.)



Regale  n.  A sumptuous repast; a banquet. "Two baked custards were produced as additions to the regale."






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"Regale" Quotes from Famous Books



... conscience or of pride, not without its nobleness, had made him refuse the importunities of Gawtrey for less sordid raiment; the same feeling made it his custom to avoid sharing the luxurious and dainty food with which Gawtrey was wont to regale himself. For that strange man, whose wonderful felicity of temperament and constitution rendered him, in all circumstances, keenly alive to the hearty and animal enjoyments of life, would still emerge, as the day declined, from their wretched apartment, and, trusting ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 3 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... rose high and sweet across the rooms. He had gone to the piano to sing for Caroline who never tired of his negro melodies and southern love songs. He also had a store of war ballads with which it delighted him to tease and regale her, but to-day his mood had been decidedly ...
— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

... e'er this people's voice should arraign thee, Hoary with all unclean infamy, worthy to die; First should a tongue, I doubt not, of old so deadly to goodness, Fall extruded, of each vulture a hungry regale; Gouged be the carrion eyes some crow's black maw to replenish, 5 Stomach a dog's fierce teeth harry, a wolf ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus

... wish to show their confidence to their friends: they treat their guests as relations; and it is said that in China the master of a house, to give a mark of his politeness, absents himself while his guests regale themselves at his table ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... that Zanoni rose. "Well, gentlemen," said he, "we have not yet wearied our host, I hope; and his garden offers a new temptation to protract our stay. Have you no musicians among your train, prince, that might regale our ears while we inhale the fragrance of ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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