Meaning of dinner-party | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“An attempt⟳ at entrées and removes failed at the first dinner-party.”

“[H]aving a dinner-party at his rooms to entertain some friends from London, nothing would satisfy⟳ Mr. Foker but painting Mr. Buck’s door vermilion, in which freak he was caught by the proctors …”

“Walter, yet new in his spousedom, was more amenable than an older hand ; but Rosa had no want⟳ of anxiety in this her first dinner-party.”

“"She knows well enough I like⟳ her," so his liking said in confidence to his vanity, and even he hardly overheard them talk⟳; "better a great deal⟳ than I knew it myself, till old Strafford got together this confounded stupid dinner-party (he caught Miss⟳ Chattesworth glancing at him with a peculiar look⟳ of inquiry). Why the plague did he ask⟳ me here? it was Puddock's turn⟳, and he likes venison and compots,[…]"”

“If wine is to withdraw⟳ its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk⟳, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like⟳ a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin⟳ to have⟳ compunctions, and look⟳ back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy "took his whack," like⟳ liquorice water.”

“We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say⟳, joint.”

“She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing⟳ the praises of her own⟳ detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like⟳ everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like⟳ them.”

“"Oysters and whitebait and a tin of pate, peaches and a pineapple and one of our fowls; well, a woman might like⟳ to give⟳ herself a nice little dinner once in a while, but not a bottle of wine at four shillings and a three and sixpenny tin of cigarettes, for I never will believe⟳ she's took to drink⟳ and smoking of a suddent, so own⟳ up, Mr. Widgett, it's a little dinner-party on your account."”

“After recording the Dostoievskyan dinner-party at the Metropole Hotel, Moscow, on 1 October and meditating on the effects of Stravinsky’s exile, Craft wrote in his Diary: ‘I am certain that to be recognised and acclaimed as a Russian in Russia, and to be performed there, has meant more to him than anything else in the years I have⟳ known him.’”

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