a dessert of sweetened flavoured milk curdled with rennet
chiefly informal a trip made by a person or group an official, business person, etc at public or a firm's expense
Middle English ioncate rush basket, ultimately from Latin juncus rush. In the 15th cent. the word referred to a kind of cream cheese made in a rush basket or served on a rush mat, later to other dishes made with cream; (sense 2) from a 16th-cent. sense ‘feast, banquet’