Dinee

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is given a dinner. rare

    "In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire."

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"In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire."

Etymology

From dine + -ee.

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