repast
repast
Definition
re·past (ri past′, -päst′)
noun
- food and drink for a meal
- a meal
- Archaic
- the eating of food, as at a meal
- mealtime
- Obsolete food
Etymology: ME < OFr < re-, re- + past, food < L pastus < pp. of pascere, to feed: see food
intransitive verb
Now Rare to eat or feast
repast
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- holiday: The easy going ambiance and delicious repasts of a ski chalet holiday is the trendy option currently with lots of skiers.
Converse of object
- prepare: Colloran had been up early and was smiling as he prepared a cold repast for the others.
- find: In fact, even now we find common repasts and common property, as we have seen, in Switzerland.
- provide: Our cook Mrs Bernadette O'Gara provided a splendid repast and the guest of honor was Miss Melanie McDonagh.
- make: Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious.
Adjective modifier
- hideous: The girl has swooned, and the vampyre is at his hideous repast!
- common: The first portion will then be subdivided to meet the expenses of religion and of the common repasts.
- excellent: October 22 nd 1919 Foxearth ex-service men were entertained to an excellent repast in the schoolroom, a company of 60 sat down.
- public: Sparta had a communal domain of great extent, the produce of which served in some measure to maintain the public repasts.
- substantial: They would have to prepare a more substantial repast for the hardier and more exercised intellects of those who listened to them.
- sumptuous: You can unwind in our comfortable lounge bar with a pre-dinner drink or relax in our delightful drawing room after a sumptuous repast.
Noun used with modifier
- evening: After evening repast till bed-time their thoughts would be best taken up in the easy grounds of religion and the story of Scripture.
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