0 a feast or ceremonial dinner at which speeches are often made -- jamuan
a state banquet.
Frequently, people attended banquets and marches for opposing candidates.
There is a parallel here with the wife of the warrior family hosting a banquet in honour of its lord.
However, because they took place at the private residence of the vassal, they were characteristic more of private banquets than official events.
At a banquet, servants are shucking oysters as fast as they can be consumed.
These groups usually gave regular concerts in their own right or other programmes in hotels or private banquets by request.
The conflicted meanings surface, for example, in the way the artist chose to depict the banquet as a single rather than a double event.
She wanted some heads of the local club to participate in this banquet, but nobody accepted.
People from the lower classes could expect money or invitations to banquets as their reward for participating in electoral campaigns.
