Meaning of dinee | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is given a dinner.

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Examples

“In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire.”

“1994 The paella didn’t turn out very well, but fortunately my dinees were quite understanding.”

“But since power itself is fleeting, the whole game of the right table at the right restaurant is ongoing. As the restaurants themselves rise and fall, so do the fortunes of the powerful who patronize them. The names of both diners and dinees is constantly in flux; the game remains the same. As Lewis Stone intoned in the 1932 classic Grand Hotel, a cautionary tale of the vicissitudes of fame and power, “People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.””

“If I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?”

“The street outside was nearly empty, though it wouldn’t stay that way for long. The dinner crowds would be out soon, hawking their blood and other valuable living assets to the vitally challenged for tokens and textbooks and practical tips on how to pass Professor Boynya’s first alchemy exam. Both diners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.”

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