| 单词 | late dinner |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslate dinner late dinner n. (a) a meal eaten late in the afternoon or evening; (b) (esp. in Victorian society) the main evening meal, held later than the children's dinner (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper supperc1300 collationc1305 mid-dinnera1500 Sunday suppera1580 supper1598 evening meal1620 late dinner1649 ordinary suppera1661 petit souper1751 souper1787 ball supper1794 tray supper1825 kitchen supper1837 bump supper1845 evenmeat1848 tea-dinner1862 luncheon1903 1649 T. Shepard Theses Sabbaticæ iii. lx. 20 This invitation..was probably to some repast..after high noon; possibly to a late Dinner. 1775 F. Gentleman Modish Wife i. 16 Five o'clock to dinner—well, that's not amiss neither, for a late dinner may save a supper. 1838 E. C. Gaskell Let. 2 Dec. (1966) 38 Mr Bradford coming home to late dinner and so agreeable. 1873 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 11 Mrs Quick is the cook... She makes very good things for late dinner but not for our [sc. the children's] dinner. 1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl I. vi. 136 The dinner-hour at Tintajeux was five, the ‘late dinner’ of Andros Bartrand's youth. 1941 M. B. Lowndes I, too, have lived in Arcadia xviii. 350 Even now the presence of a child at late dinner would certainly occasion surprise, to almost any guest of that child's parents. 2006 Cruise Trav. Apr. 6/3 Later we saw her at late dinner, talking on the phone, alone. < as lemmas |
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