单词 | despedida |
释义 | despedidan. Chiefly Philippine English. More fully despedida party. A social event honouring someone who is about to depart on a journey or leave an organization; a going-away party. ΚΠ 1929 Washington Post 23 Apr. 11/1 (heading) ‘Flower of Sevilla’ will be rendered at ‘despedida’ for army musicians going May 4 to Spanish exposition. 1948 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 8 Dec. 2/8 A ‘despedida’ party for all members of service company, 44th Infantry Division, leaving for the Philippines in December. 1993 Vanity Fair Mar. 130/1 The night before he left I fixed him a special meal, a little despedida. 2008 BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 27 June Describing a retiree in his despedida party as a dinosaur who has now become extinct may not elicit too much hearty laughter from the subject's family. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1929 |
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