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Definition of Beanfeast
1. Noun. An annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Beanfeast
1. Noun. (chiefly British) A dinner party given to the employees of a firm. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly British) Any similar social occasion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beanfeast
Literary usage of Beanfeast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Dear Wells by Henry Arthur Jones, Herbert George Wells (1921)
"THE FABIAN beanfeast. MY DEAR WELLS,— It may be a good habit, or it may be a bad
habit, and this is a matter upon which you are supremely qualified to have ..."
2. My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letter by Henry Arthur Jones (1921)
"THE FABIAN beanfeast. MY DEAR WELLS,— It may be a good habit, or it may be a bad
habit, and this is a matter upon which you are supremely qualified to have ..."
3. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1897)
"the Turf, had they not known that Hamlet was a little gold mine. Of the six
starters, beanfeast was a long way second best, even allowing for lack of ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"Lizzie told Pleasance of this beanfeast, which threatened to ... to the degree
that he had voluntarily absented himself from the beanfeast. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... Cheam since father left the smithy early, for strings to servo to scrape upon,
and 1 a'most think Dick may come here afore he looks in at the beanfeast. ..."
6. Electrical Review (1891)
"beanfeast.—Messrs. Swinburne and Co.'s staff, workmen, and employés had their
first annual beanfeast on Friday. They went in a steam launch from Staines to ..."
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