A bean-feast was primarily an annual dinner given by an employer to his or her employees. By extension, colloquially, it describes any festive occasion with a meal and an outing. The word, and its shorter form "beano," are fairly common in Britain, less known in the United States. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the beanfeast often took the form of a trip to some beauty spot, where the meal was provided. (e.g. ..I want a feast, I want a bean feast. Cream buns and doughnuts and fruitcake with no nuts, so good you could go nuts. - Veruca Salt, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...

Noun: zenana (plural zenanas)

1. A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.
2. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 173:
3. Depend upon it, Solomon would never have built altars to Ashtaroth and all those ladies with queer names, if there had not been trouble of some kind in his zenana, and nowhere else.
4. 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin 2004, p. 59:
5. Yet inside the walls of the havelis and the lattice screens of the zenana, life goes on as it always did.

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