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mixed company

noun

Definitions

  1. Men and women, both present at a gathering.

    • "Imagine my one attempt at rational conversation last night. Asking his views on female emigration . . . ." "Perhaps the bearings of the question would hardly suit mixed company."
    • "Took 'er home all right, did yuh?" he leered, as if they two were in possession of a huge joke of the kind which may not be told in mixed company.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mixed company. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA