2. A feast; an entertainment.

A new jaunt or junket every night.

Thackeray.

Jun"ket, v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; --

sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the

public cost.

Job's children junketed and feasted together often.

South.

Jun"ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To

give entertainment to; to feast.

The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a

hurry to junket her neighbors.

Walpole.

Jun"ket*ing, n. A feast or entertainment; a revel.

All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the

ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern

successors.

W. Irving.

The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.

South.

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