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noun
1.
a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating: to eat a light repast.
2.
a meal: the evening repast.
3.
the time during which a meal is eaten; mealtime.
4.
Archaic. the taking of food, as at a meal.
5.
Obsolete. food.
verb (used without object)
6.
to eat or feast (often followed by on or upon).
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Example Sentences
- Locals flock to them, often making a hearty late-morning repast their only meal of the day, prior to dinner.
- The organism produces a toxin that makes plants the last repast of common insect pests.
- The standard repast is a little bowl of caviar with toast points, a bit of chopped egg, the usual.
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Word Origin & History
repast
c.1300, from O.Fr. repast "a meal," from L.L. repastus "meal," prop. pp. of repascere "to feed again," from L. re- "repeatedly" + pascere "to graze" (see pastor).
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