[Sca-cooks] Re: *&^%$ Feastocrat!, was: Wines at a Feast

[Elise Fleming]

Bear wrote:
>As I recall, the banquet is the dessert course at an Elizabethean dinner.

I would agree.  "Banquet" as a synonym for "feast" seems to have come into
common use post-period.  I seem to recall that there was a transitional
period in the early 1600s where the word "banquet" could refer to both
"dessert course" and "feast" but I may be mis-remembering.  In general,
"banquet" for "feast" is OOP.

Alys Katharine
 
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