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dinner-party

noun

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  1. Alternative form of dinner party.

    • 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.

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