dinnerette

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dinner +‎ -ette

Noun[edit]

dinnerette (plural dinnerettes)

  1. (rare) A small dinner.
    • 1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871, volume 2, page 74:
      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 […]
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