repast

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The other gentlemen could, of course, do no less than imitate the impassibility of their chief, and the repast was accordingly concluded without further interruption.

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  1. noun A meal or the food eaten or provided at a meal.
  2. intransitive verb To eat or feast.
  3. transitive verb Obsolete To give food to.

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  • This repast was a perfect English dinner. —  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
  • The mouth gaped wide as the frog swallowed an entire leg of lamb with a single gulp. The second reason that others might forego the repast was the thick slime dripping from the frog creature's webbed hands. —  VANCE MOORE
  • This done, he ordered in breakfast, which consisted of roast and boiled plantains, ground nuts, roast fowl, and roast pig; so we fell to at once, and being exceedingly hungry after our long walk of the day before, made a hearty meal. "Now, sir," said Jack, when our repast was about concluded, "as you are going to leave us soon, you had better arrange with the king about getting us an interpreter and supplying us with a few men to carry our goods." —  The Gorilla Hunters
  • Judging from his frequent sighs, and the uneasy shiftings in his seat, the repast was any thing but savoury. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
  • Our kind housekeeper often made us a little feast of a roast chicken, a pigeon, or a duck, and once in four or five days we had fresh butter made in the gourd churn; and the delicious honey which we ate to our cassava bread might have been a treat to European epicures. The remains of our repast was always divided among our domestic animals. —  The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin repāstus, from past participle of repāscere, to feed : re-, re- + Latin pāscere, to feed; see pā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English repast, from Old French repast, repas, French repas, a repast, meal (=Spanish repasto, increase of food), from Middle Latin repastus, a meal, from Latin re-, again, + pastus, food: see pasture.
  2. =Spanish Portuguese repastar, feed again: from the noun.
 

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