"junketing" meaning in English

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        "present participle and gerund of junket"
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          "ref": "1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Eastbourne Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340",
          "text": "The usual junketings of the times attended the opening of the line.",
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          "ref": "1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, London: W. Morden, Book 4, Chapter 5, p. 110",
          "text": "Which things though not so substantially performed, are notwithstanding in some measure imitated by Witches and Magicians, I mean in their junketings; whose viands are observed to afford so little satisfaction to nature, that they leave oftentimes the partakers of them as weak and faint almost as if they had eaten nothing […]",
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          "ref": "1710, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq”, in The Tatler, volume 5, number 12, London: John Nutt, published 1712, page 62",
          "text": "I have already been invited to Two Christenings, and several Junketings, which I hope will be no Reflection upon my Character, having heard, that you your self, Sir, will take a chirping Cup upon Occasion.",
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          "ref": "1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 5, Chapter 2",
          "text": "[…] think o’ them poor women up i’ the villages there, as niver stir a hundred yards from home,—it ’ud be a pity for anybody to buy up their bargains. Lors, it’s as good as a junketing to ’em when they see me wi’ my pack, an’ I shall niver pick up such bargains for ’em again.",
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          "text": "1928, Virginia Woolf, letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 8 September, 1928, in Nigel Nicholson and Joanne Trautmann (eds.), The Letters of Virginia Woolf, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 529,\nYou see, dearest Creature, being now in the pink and prime of health, I could sit up all night: we might go to moonlight ruins, café’s, dances, plays, junketings: converse for ever; sleep only while the moon covers herself for an instant with a thin veil […]"
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