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Junket   Listen
noun
Junket  n.  
1.
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. "How Faery Mab the junkets eat." "Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets."
2.
A feast; an entertainment. "A new jaunt or junket every night."
3.
A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.






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"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books



... deep with cold water, and set at one side of the range on washing-day, to simmer into soup stock, wastes neither time nor fuel and will be the base of more than one or two nourishing dinners; prove, by mathematical demonstration, that a mold of delicious blanc-mange or Spanish cream or simpler junket costs less and can be made in one-tenth of the time required for the leathery-skinned, sour or faint-hearted pie, without which "father'n the boys wouldn't relish their dinner;" that an egg and lettuce salad, with mayonnaise dressing, is so much more toothsome and digestible than chipped ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

... inhabitants found their way to the "Flowing Source" sooner or later. Marketers crossed the ferry and paused for a morning drink. In the cool of the day quiet citizens rambled up from Ponteglos with rod and line, or brought their families by boat on the high evening tide to eat cream and junket, and sit afterwards on the benches by the inn-door, watching the fish rise and listening to the song of the young people some way up stream. Painters came, too, and sketched the old inn, and sometimes stayed for a week, having tasted the salmon. ...
— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Junket" :   sashay, jaunt, journeying, host, field trip, sweet, excursion, trip, junketeer, afters, journey, dessert, junketing



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