Word of the Day: banquet

The word banquet has appeared in 135 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 29 in the Opinion essay “I’ve Spent 28 Years Pondering the Wild World of My Home” by Margaret Renkl:

A lovely native grape has sprung up beside the pokeweed plants at the end of the privacy fence between our driveway and the driveway next door. The grapevines are running along the fence, curling among the blackberry canes and the passionflower vines. Our neighbor installed the fence decades ago, and it isn’t much of a fence anymore. Only a few yards long, falling to ruin, it nevertheless sets a banquet every summer for wildlife. Long before the pears on the ancient backyard tree are ripe, long before the holly berries and the cedar drupes and the acorns are ready to eat, there are pokeberries and blackberries and passion fruit right beside our driveway. Soon there will be wild grapes, too.

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