regale

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To please or entertain (someone), especially with stories, tales or jokes.

   Please, regale us with your best tales!

2. 2
   verb

   To feast (on, with something).

   She hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.

3. 3
   verb

   To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.

   To regale the taste/the eye/the ear.

From French régaler (“to entertain, feast”), from Old French regale, rigale, from gale (“merriment”), probably of Germanic origin (see Old French galer). Influenced by Old French se rigoler (“amuse oneself, rejoice”), of unknown origin. Compare Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”), English gale (“to sing; charm”). Compare also English gala.

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