† rere-banquet Obs.
Also 6–7 reere-, 7 reer-, rear-.
[Cf. rere-supper.]
A ‘banquet’ or collation taken after dinner or supper.
| 1530 Palsgr. 262/1 Rere banket, ralias. 1584 R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. xvi. (1886) 52 The fairies or witches being at a reere banket. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 288 He came..in the after noone, and finding the king at a rere-banquet,..turned back againe. 1606 Holland Sueton. 235 He devided repast into three meales every day at the least, and sometime into foure, to wit, Breakefast, Dinner, Supper and rere-bankets. 1620 tr. Boccaccio's Decam. 26 b, Being disposed to a rere-banquet after dinner. 1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 286 Accoutred with a reere-banket to belull the abused soule with the sleepe of an incessant surfeit. 1659 Lady Alimony C j, Balls, Treats, Reer-Banquets, Theatral Receipts To solace tedious hours. |
| fig. 1602 W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. Introd. 6 The booke of Littletons tenures is their breakfast, their dinner, their boier, their supper, and their rere-banquet. |