"mixed company" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} mixed company (uncountable)
  1. Men and women, both present at a gathering. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-mixed_company-en-noun-bYJPEWj1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 5, in Clever Woman of the Family:",
          "text": "\"Imagine my one attempt at rational conversation last night. Asking his views on female emigration . . . .\"\n\"Perhaps the bearings of the question would hardly suit mixed company.\"",
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          "ref": "1908, B. M. Bower, chapter 3, in The Long Shadow:",
          "text": "\"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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          "ref": "1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:",
          "text": "Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.",
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          "ref": "2004, Stella Starsky, Quinn Cox, Sextrology: The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes, page 189:",
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