单词 | chowder-party |
释义 | > as lemmaschowder-party b. In full chowder-party: a party or picnic, esp. one held at the seaside, at which chowder is the principal dish. U.S. ΚΠ 1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 354 We had public chowder-parties, where sixty people sat down under grape-vine arbours, to other good things beside fish. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms at Clam-Bake Nearly 10,000 persons assembled [at a political mass-meeting] in Rhode Island, for whom a clambake and chowder were prepared. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 80 In the science of getting up..a picnic or chowder party, or fish fry, the Virginian..was first. 1884 Cent. Mag. 28 555 A chowder was given a few nights ago at the head of our little bay. 1906 N.Y. Evening Post 6 Nov. 8 The Bowery..went about the business..with as much good nature as if it were ‘Big Tim's’ annual ‘chowder’. < as lemmas |
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