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Jun"ket (?), n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate.]
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1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
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How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton.
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Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets. Chapman.
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2. A feast; an entertainment.
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A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray.
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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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Jun"ket, v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
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Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.
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Jun"ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To give entertainment to; to feast.
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The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. Walpole.
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