petit souper

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French petit souper.

Noun[edit]

petit souper (plural petits soupers)

  1. A light supper; (especially), an informal dinner party with only a few select guests. [from 18th c.]
    • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 104:
      She had given a card-assembly, and a petit-souper; […] Mrs. Chartres told her son, with an air of triumph, that the evening had gone off remarkably well.
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