Both Uses of
banter
in
Dune
- And Jessica heard the true-banter in his voice, she allowed herself a faint hope.†
Book 2 *
- He sensed the feeling of humor around him, something bantering in it, and his mind linked up a prescient memory: watercounters offered to a woman—courtship ritual.†
Book 2bantering = engaging in amusing conversation
Definition:
casual conversation that is clever and amuses; or to engage in such conversation