Dinnerette

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small dinner. rare

    "And he has a luxurious bachelor's first floor in Piccadilly, overlooking the Park, where he sometimes gives excellent dinnerettes, and where in the short hours he concocts country-house comedies, and dashes off love-lyrics and nonsense-verses […]"

Example

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"And he has a luxurious bachelor's first floor in Piccadilly, overlooking the Park, where he sometimes gives excellent dinnerettes, and where in the short hours he concocts country-house comedies, and dashes off love-lyrics and nonsense-verses […]"

Etymology

From dinner + -ette.

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