banket

British  

/ ˈbæŋkɪt /

noun

1. a gold-bearing conglomerate found in South Africa

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Etymology

Origin of banket

C19: from Dutch: a kind of almond hardbake, alluding to its appearance

Example Sentences

For more seasonally correct snacking, she suggested an almond banket, which is similar to a letter cookie but with more almond paste and shaped like a flagpole.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

Here and there, however, the banket is traversed by thin veins of quartz rock, and nuggets, mostly quite small, are occasionally found in this quartz.

From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

When they doo make any banket to a viceroy or to any embassadour, it is with so great cost and sumptuousness, that they spend a great substance therein.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de

And, after the banket done, these maskers came in, with six gentlemen disguised in silke, bearing staffe torches, and desired the ladies to danse: some were content, and some refused.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

The Marchionesse of Monferrato, with a banket of Hennes, and certaine pleasant wordes, repressed the fond loue of Philip the French Kynge.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William