Meaning of dinnery | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.

informal

Examples

““For with an invalid so much depends on tranquillity. In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so—so what shall I call⟳ it? so dinnery,—the smell⟳ of meals never seems to leave⟳ it; it would have⟳ been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw⟳ out that window—””

“It was evening, the hour when warm dinnery smells pervaded the walls and whiffs of other people’s trays came a-visiting.”

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