banqueteering
English
Noun
banqueteering (uncountable)
- The act of participating in banquets, particularly as a frequent activity (also used attributively).
- 1853, William Carleton, “The Three Tasks, or, The Little House Under the Hill,” in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, London: Routledge, [Volume 1], p. 105,
- […] and so, to make a long story short, such faisting and banqueteering was never seen since or before.
- 1907, Mark Twain, in Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith (eds.), Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, 2015, p. 189,
- Three seasons ago I was still keeping up the banqueteering habit—a habit which had its beginning in 1869 or ’70 and had been continued season by season, thereafter, over that long stretch of thirty-five or thirty-six years.
- 1922, Cyril B. Egan, “Litany of the Festive Bored,” in Judge, Volume 83, 9 September, 1922,
- From All Speakers and Dinners and Diners—
- From Every Banqueteering Abomination—
- Good Lord, Deliver Us!
- 1853, William Carleton, “The Three Tasks, or, The Little House Under the Hill,” in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, London: Routledge, [Volume 1], p. 105,
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