† ˈjunkery Obs.
Forms: 5 iunkerye, 6 ioncrye, ionkry, iunkerie.
[Of obscure origin: agrees in sense with junket n. 3 and 4, but appears much earlier.]
a. A banquet or feast. b. A dainty dish or sweetmeat.
| 1449 Paston Lett. (1901) IV. 24 Pertrych and his felaw bere gret visage and kepe gret junkeryes and dyneres. a 1500 H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) ii. 210 There shall no gentylman..Be better serued..For a banket or a ionkry, For a dyshe two or thre. 1509 Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 294 Eschewynge bankettes, reresoupers, ioncryes betwyxe meales. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. i. §81. 104 Marchepaines or wafers w{supt} other like iunkerie. |