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Repast is the food and drink at a meal.

(noun)

An example of a repast is the small meal eaten from a lunchbox during a worker's day.

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noun

1. food and drink for a meal
2. a meal
Archaic
1. the eating of food, as at a meal
2. mealtime
Obsolete food

Origin: ME < OFr < re-, re- + past, food < L pastus < pp. of pascere, to feed: see food

intransitive verb

Now Rare to eat or feast

See repast in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A meal or the food eaten or provided at a meal.

verb re·past·ed, re·past·ing, re·pasts

verb, intransitive

To eat or feast.

verb, transitive
Obsolete

To give food to.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Late Latin repāstus

Origin: , from past participle of repāscere, to feed

Origin: : re-, re-

Origin: + Latin pāscere, to feed; see pā- in Indo-European roots

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