Banqueteer

The dinner and the soiree too were done, The supper too discuss’d, the dames admired, The banqueteers had dropp’d off one by one— The song was silent, and the dance expired:

The banqueteers forsook their scented alcoves, and men of all stations withdrew from the outlying sectors […]

After a trumpet had given the starting sign each banqueteer tried to empty his jug as fast as possible, which must have been quite a feat, since a jug contained about three liters of wine!

I had been banqueteering and making speeches two or three times in every week for six months […]