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Supper

noun

A light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime.

A social gathering where a light evening meal is served.

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"Supper" Quotes from Famous Books

... have many friends, and I am invited out perpetually. I am on a salary in a large business house in New York. I am obliged to arise in the morning at seven o'clock, but I cannot get home from those parties till one in the morning. The late supper and the excitement leave me sleepless. I must either give up society or give up business, which is my living. My wife is not willing that I should give up society, because she is very popular. My health is breaking down. ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... We prepared supper, ate and talked a little, but for the most part were silent. Even Larry's high spirits were not in evidence; half a dozen times I saw him take out his automatic and look it over. He was more thoughtful than I had ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... the wing south of the central pavilion were still illuminated. The Emperor evidently had not so much desire to go to bed as I had. I knew the windows of his petits appartements—as what good American did not?—and I wondered if he was just then taking a little supper, if he had bidden good-night to Eugenie, if he was alone in his room, reflecting upon his grandeur and thinking what suit he should wear on the morrow in his ride to the Bois. Perhaps he was dictating an editorial for the official journal; perhaps he was according an interview ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... monkey face was puckered into a smile. She came back presently. "She is going to the Duomo and then to colazione with the De Sancti. She will go with Signora Aurelia to see the Palio and only come back here to supper." ...

— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton

... acknowledged to have been brilliantly successful. True, the much talked of French artiste had not sung the promised ditties, but in the midst of the whirl and excitement of dances, of the inspiring tunes of the string band, the elaborate supper and recherche wines, no one had paid much heed to this change ...

— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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