Meaning of good-evening | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of good evening.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“Instead of passing the house towards the town, he turned up to the door and rode toward her. She was too familiar with the scenes of danger, and the incidents of those warlike times to feel⟳ alarm, and waited quietly his approach⟳ to the door-stone. / “Good-evening, maiden,” he said with a foreign accent; “I pray you give⟳ me your hospitality a brief space—I and my horse are both wounded, and he will carry⟳ me no farther, I fear.””

“Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let⟳ the hide⟳ go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk⟳ up to Hudden’s door? / “Good-evening, Hudden. Will you lend⟳ me your best pair of scales?””

“Abe’s Gran was standing in the doorway. ‘Good-evening,’ she said. She was holding a tin mug in each hand. / ‘Good-evening, Mrs Tanner,’ Sam said.”

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