en
regale

Meaning: en
v. make happy, please, delight; entertain with a feast, host at a party
Barbara regaled us with amazing stories about her trip to Tibet.
She went and sat down beside her sisters, showing them a thousand civilities, and giving them among other things part of the oranges and citrons with which the Prince had regaled her. This very much surprised them, for they had not been presented to her.
A miserable quarrel provoked by the hardheartedness of the landlord of a public-house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two pennyworth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated would be punishable by five or ten years' imprisonment.
The marriage guests, on the present occasion, were regaled with a banquet of unbounded profusion.
They regaled me on a Chinese banquet.
I regaled the devil; he gave me a fable.
The marriage guests, on the present occasion, were regaled with a banquet of unbounded profusion, the relics of which, after the domestics had feasted in their turn, were distributed among the shouting crowd.
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