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- an elaborate and formal evening meal for many people, typically followed by speeches宴会, 晚宴：
a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.
白金汉宫的国宴。
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- an elaborate, extensive, and delicious meal; a feast筵席：
a four-course Asian banquet.
有四道菜的亚洲筵席。
banqueted, banqueting
with obj. entertain with a banquet宴请：there are halls for banqueting up to 3,000 people
有多个可以宴请三千人的大厅
as noun modifier (banqueting) a banqueting hall.宴会厅。
派生词
banqueter
noun词源
late 15th cent.: from French， diminutive of banc 'bench' （see BANK1）.