noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hall
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We filed out of the banquet hall .
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Then they wrapped them in warm purple mantles over fine tunics, and conducted them to the banquet hall .
state
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That night there was a State banquet .
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She began to hide away when State banquets were in progress.
■ VERB
attend
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They are to attend the banquet as Antony and Cleopatra and hoped to outdo Taylor and Burton.
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That evening we attended a royal banquet in the magnificent setting of Wolsey's hall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A huge banquet was planned to celebrate the city's millennium.
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a state banquet hosted by the French Prime Minister
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A servant knocked and announced that the banquet would begin in an hour.
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He decides, literally, to play for time and makes a debut at Nero's banquet that evening.
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Its big annual event in Dade County, a banquet honoring the judiciary, just made me impatient.
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The other bulky envelope contained the invitation to the formal Sunday banquet in the City Hall.
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Then he turned to seek his reward: a banquet cooked by Auguste Didier.
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They did more; they came to a banquet in his palace; they condescended to dine with him.
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They enjoyed the greetings of people in the street and they loved places of honour at banquets.
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You saw the settings at the banquet .