"dinner-party" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "dinner-parties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "dinner party"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1851 February, “A Little Stimulant — A Temperance Tale”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 2, number 9, page 363",
          "text": "Walter, yet new in his spousedom, was more amenable than an older hand ; but Rosa had no want of anxiety in this her first dinner-party.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, page 35f.",
          "text": "If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy \"took his whack,\" like liquorice water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79",
          "text": "We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - \" blanket \" for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers",
          "text": "She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Eric Walter White, “Part One: The Man”, “10. The Return of the Native (1962)”, in Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, University of California Press, published 1972, page 124",
          "text": "After recording the Dostoievskyan dinner-party at the Metropole Hotel, Moscow, on 1 October and meditating on the effects of Stravinsky’s exile, Craft wrote in his Diary: ‘I am certain that to be recognised and acclaimed as a Russian in Russia, and to be performed there, has meant more to him than anything else in the years I have known him.’",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of dinner party."
      ],
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  "word": "dinner-party"
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      "form": "dinner-parties",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "dinner party"
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English nouns",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1851 February, “A Little Stimulant — A Temperance Tale”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 2, number 9, page 363",
          "text": "Walter, yet new in his spousedom, was more amenable than an older hand ; but Rosa had no want of anxiety in this her first dinner-party.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, page 35f.",
          "text": "If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy \"took his whack,\" like liquorice water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79",
          "text": "We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - \" blanket \" for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers",
          "text": "She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Eric Walter White, “Part One: The Man”, “10. The Return of the Native (1962)”, in Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, University of California Press, published 1972, page 124",
          "text": "After recording the Dostoievskyan dinner-party at the Metropole Hotel, Moscow, on 1 October and meditating on the effects of Stravinsky’s exile, Craft wrote in his Diary: ‘I am certain that to be recognised and acclaimed as a Russian in Russia, and to be performed there, has meant more to him than anything else in the years I have known him.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of dinner party."
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  "word": "dinner-party"
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