regale
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˈɡeɪl/, /ɹəˈɡeɪl/
regale (plural regales)
Translations Verbregale (regales, present participle regaling; past and past participle regaled)
- (transitive) To please or entertain (someone). [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feast (on, with something). [17th-19th c.]
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, V:
- she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, V:
- (figurative, transitive) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
- to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear
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