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Dinner

noun

The main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday. "On Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church"

A party of people assembled to have dinner together. Synonym: dinner party.

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"Dinner" Quotes from Famous Books

... meals [per day]: breakfast, dinner, and supper. These three meals consist of rice boiled in water but dry like the rice cooked in the Valencian style, or like the Turkish pilao. In addition they eat a trifle of fresh or salt fish, ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin

... council Miss Anthony lectured at Lincoln, Va., in the ancient Quaker meeting house. Returning to Washington she was entertained by Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood at a dinner party on the evening of the Travel Club, at which she was one of the speakers. Reaching Philadelphia March 9, she turned her steps, as was always her custom, directly towards her old friend Adeline Thomson, and her surprise ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... gently shoved into a siding, and before you can say knife, our servants are spreading the table beside the carriage on the sand by lamplight; there are flowers on the table, silver, linen, and brass fingerbowls for four—the dinner prepared between Seringapatam and here en route! R. having made final arrangements with his people for a long hot day's work to-morrow, we fall to; needless to say we do not get into regulation evening kit, but the regulation ...

— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... happy, especially when the talk turned on conjugal fidelity, and the faithful husband was held up to ridicule. This happened very often in one house we used to go to—that of a Countess of ancient family who was said to have her husband and her lover at either side of her when she sat down to dinner. ...

— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... the trio were in very low water, Schubert and one of the others met at a small coffee-house and surprised each other in the act of ordering coffee and biscuits, because neither could summon from his pockets the requisite amount—namely, eightpence halfpenny—wherewith to pay for a dinner! ...

— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

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