junket

A basket.

A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.

I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].

The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.

A delicacy.

[…] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.

Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].

A feast or banquet.

Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].

We're often in waiting / At junket or feting, / And sometimes attend an interment—

A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.

It did strike him as odd, perhaps, that merchants did not dare to go on a junket or plan a congenial dinner without pretending to themselves that it had some business significance.

To attend a junket; to feast.

Be careful that you wast not, or spoil your Ladies, or Mistresses goods, neither sit you up junketing a nights, after your Master and Mistress be abed.

1688, Robert South, Sermon preached on 8 April, 1688, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. The Second Volume, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 414, Iob’s Children junketted and feasted together often, but the Reckoning cost them dear at last.

To go on a junket; to travel.

Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.

It is only by much junketing about that one comes to the full realization of what men and women in the main are doing in this country. One learns as he passes from town to town, through cities and across plains, that the general reason for industry everywhere is to get the means to build and support a home.

To regale or entertain with a feast.