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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. [ 1913 Webster ]
How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A feast; an entertainment. [ 1913 Webster ]
A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ PJC ]
v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. [ 1913 Webster ]
Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 1. A feast or entertainment; a revel. [ 1913 Webster ]
All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The act or process of taking a junket{ 3 }. [ PJC ]
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