different between repast vs carousal

English

Etymology

Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??st/
• (US, Northern England) IPA^(key): /???pæst/

Noun

repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

1. (now literary) A meal.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast.

   • 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like

     "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast."

2. (archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.

Translations

Verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

Old French

Noun

repast m (oblique plural repaz or repatz, nominative singular repaz or repatz, nominative plural repast)

1. a meal

Descendants

• ? English: repast
• French: repas

English

Etymology

carouse +? -al

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k???a?z?l/
• Rhymes: -a?z?l

Noun

carousal (plural carousals)

1. A noisy feast or social gathering, often with much alcohol consumption.

   Synonym: (dated) spree

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 207):

     The earth-spirit of Tema, who loved carousals, heard from afar the songs and laughter of the people on Nassau.

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