Definition of repast
1
: something taken as food : meal
2
: the act or time of taking food
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Examples of repast in a Sentence
She offered us a light repast before we set out on our trip.
monks taking their evening repast in silence
Recent Examples of repast from the Web
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After the repast, Goodman said, the family returned to the house on East Lanvale Street near Barclay Street in Greenmount West, when police surrounded it and called in a SWAT team.
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More than 160 hunters, trappers, and anglers from around the state attended the Sunday afternoon repast.
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After the funeral, a repast will be held at 3 p.m. at Renfroe Middle.
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Bloomfield, followed by a repast at the VFW, 276 Broad St., Windsor.
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He is known for being Francis Mallmann, the Patagonian dandy who can put together a royal repast in a clearing in the forest, using little more than a few sticks tied together and a smoldering flame surrounded by stones.
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The response to the tuber-centric repast was unexpectedly positive.
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If one round of reveillon repasts isn't enough to sate you, how about a second?
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Still, that first simple repast remains by far the most special.
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Origin and Etymology of repast
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from (soi) repaistre to feed upon, from re- + pestre, paistre to feed, from Latin pascere — more at food
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First Known Use: 14th century
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First Known Use of repast
15th century
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