[f. BANQUET v. + -ER1; Cf. F. banqueteur.]

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  † 1.  The giver of a banquet; a host, entertainer.

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1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 189 a. The feaster or banquetter plaied … the niggarde.

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1637.  Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., III. v. 86. He is our loving and kinde Banqueter.

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  2.  A guest at a banquet, a feaster; a reveller.

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1549.  Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI., ii. (Arb.), 62. Blessed is the Lande where … Kynges be no banketers.

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1617.  Janua Ling., 506. Inordinate banquetters cram themselves in cellars.

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1624.  Heywood, Gunaik., II. 65. All such banquetters be either musicall or learned.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, VI. xxvii. With earnest eyes the banqueters Fed on the sight impure.

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  ¶ Used for: Broker, trafficker, BANKER2.

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1534.  Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, I. 18. I aske no golde … nor gyue me no banketters in warre, but men of armes.

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1552.  Huloet, Banqueter, or he that kepeth a banck of mony.

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