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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BANKET , a See also:

South See also:

AFRICAN

African See also:

MINING

mining See also:

TERM

term, applied to the beds of auriferous See also:

CONGLOMERATE (from the Lat. conglomerare, to form into a ball, glomus, glomeris; so also the general term " conglomeration " for a miscellaneous collection of things, gathered together in a mass)

conglomerate, chiefly occurring in the Witwatersrand See also:

gold-See also:

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields (see Goan). The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a sweetmeat, known in Dutch as " banket," resembling See also:

ALMOND (from the O. Fr. almande or alemande, late Lat. amandola, derived through a form amingdola from the Gr. l uybian, an almond; the al- for a- is probably due to a confusion with the Arabic article al, the word having first dropped the a- as in the It

almond hard-See also:

BAKE, JAN (1787-1864)

bake. The word is the same as " banquet," and is derived ultimately from " See also:

BANK

bank " or " See also:

BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench," meaning table-feast, hence applied to any delicacy or to various kinds of See also:

CONFECTIONERY (from Lat. confectio, conficere, compound)

confectionery, a use now obsolete in See also:

ENGLISH

English.

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