| 单词 | christening party |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschristening party c. As a modifier, designating a social gathering held to celebrate a child's christening, as in christening feast, christening party, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feasts for other occasions plough feast1355 king ale1472 natal1484 primifeste1551 mayor's feast1578 sheep-shearing feast1586 sheep-shearing1611 christening1617 bean-feast1805 updrinking1819 Thanksgiving dinner1830 bump supper1845 potlatch1858 stag1904 rehearsal dinner1906 society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > feast following christening1617 gossipinga1627 1617 R. Middleton Heauenly Progresse 25 Marriages, Christning feasts, merchandizing, commessations, and drinkings, and all kind of feastings. 1764 Hist. Miss Charlotte Seymour I. i. 9 We may suppose the christening banquet was by this time nearly finished, without so much as a layman, or lay-woman, being intoxicated, either with liquor, vanity, or dispute. 1805 J. Austen Let. 8 Apr. (1995) 100 I expect a prodigious account of the Christening dinner. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 196 A bridal banquet, or a kirstening feast, or such like. 1950 National Advocate (Bathurst, Austral.) 11 Feb. 6/5 At the christening lunch he broke his abstinence..in a bottle of somewhat doubtful champagne. 2019 Bolton News (Nexis) 19 Feb. A very high-spirited christening party in the function room gave us a lively musical background. < as lemmas |
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