banquetting

English

Verb

banquetting

  1. present participle and gerund of banquet

Noun

banquetting (countable and uncountable, plural banquettings)

  1. 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.
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