| 单词 | kitchen party |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen party kitchen party n. chiefly North American, esp. Canadian regional (chiefly eastern, esp. Prince Edward Island). an informal gathering with music and dancing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > informal free and easy1761 sans souci1781 kitchen party1878 get-together1898 lime1956 1878 ‘E. Gray’ Cedars iv. 53 At The Cedars every thing was always done in a way of its own, often as unlike any other person's way as the ‘kitchen parties’, delight of long ago, were unlike the conventional dancing parties. 1903 Worcester (Mass.) Spy 26 Feb. 10/3 According to the police, the hardest work he has done for some time was in dancing at kitchen parties and cheap social affairs. 1957 T. Jones Once upon Lake vii. 92 One evening..we saw wagons come through the trees. It was relatives and friends come to surprise us with a kitchen party... There was a fiddle and a keg of beer. We all laughed and ate and danced and sang. 2000 M. Winter This All Happened iii. 81 Squeezed shoulder to shoulder in a kitchen party, the frenetic energy of bodies, the physical pull and tug and unanimous decision to be frenzied and fun. < as lemmas |
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