Junket

Noun

 * 1)  A basket.
 * 2) A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
 * 3) * 1818, John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?":
 * I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly [...].
 * 1) A feast or banquet.
 * 2) * 1790, Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, Vol III. No 124., page 95
 * Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least [...].
 * 1) A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
 * 2)  20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily.  Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

Verb

 * 1) To go on or attend a junket.

Thesaurus
Charlotte, campaign, carrot pudding, chocolate mousse, circuit, course, custard, duff, excursion, expedition, flan, grand tour, jaunt, journey, mousse, outing, package tour, peregrination, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, plum pudding, progress, pudding, rennet, round trip, roundabout, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, stalk, steamed pudding, syllabub, tapioca pudding, tour, trek, trifle, trip, turn, vanilla pudding, voyage

Etymology
Origin uncertain.

Noun

 * Finnish: vanukas


 * French: caillé, fromage blanc


 * Finnish: huviretki
 * French: ballade, virée, excursion, troisième mi-temps
 * Italian: gita, passeggiata


 * Russian: приятная поездка, увеселительная поездка за казённый счёт
 * Spanish: vuelta, garbeo

Verb

 * Russian: пировать, веселиться, устраивать праздник, совершить приятную прогулку