单词 | jeu de société |
释义 | jeu de sociétén. A game or amusement at a party. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] jeu de société1793 parlour game1854 party game1929 1774 E. Stanhope tr. Ld. Chesterfield in Ld. Chesterfield Lett. to Son I. 318 Do [your Amusements and Pleasures] consist in little commercial play (un petit jeu de société) in good company?] 1793 H. Boyd Indian Observer 3 Dec. 126 Eugenius..is not..averse from the amusements of moderate play, the jeu de societé of a friendly party. 1827 Edinb. Rev. 46 xcii. 382 To these pantomimes succeeded ballets, and such jeux de société as ‘La Peur’..a sort of dumb show. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 271 These little diversions and jeux de société can go on anywhere. 1932 H. Nicolson Diary 1 Jan. (1966) 104 He..had been kept up doing jeux de société till 8 am. 1963 A. Zaina in B. Sewell Two Friends 78 The two duologues..were obviously destined to be a jeu de société... Perhaps it was performed at one of the Raffalovich parties. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 8 Jan. a3 You play it with dice and rubber money, just like Monopoly, but this jeu de societe has a biochemical side-effect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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