单词 | musicale |
释义 | musicalen. Originally and chiefly U.S. A musical party; a concert, esp. at a private house. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > musical party musical1809 musical soirée1821 soirée musicale1836 musicale1871 1850 Ladies' Repository Sept. 294/2 Concerts, soirees, and balls, besides private parties, social and musicale, were frequent.] 1871 E. S. Phelps Silent Partner xi. 226 They did not..leave a very different impression upon the superficial spectator from that of any thirty people whom Fly Silver might collect at a musicale. 1896 Cosmopolitan Feb. 408/2 The ladies' receptions are of a different character. Some are musicales. 1904 W. N. Harben Georgians 79 Eric had several times treated his Darley friends to musicales, at which men and women of high standing in their professions had played and sung when they had ‘off nights’. 1948 Vogue (U.S. ed.) 15 Feb. 107/2 His musicales..range from chamber music by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and gifted amateurs to boogie-woogie. 1974 Times 25 Feb. 8/5 The musicale sounds a charmingly old-fashioned activity. In fact it happens every afternoon in the Park Lane Hilton. 1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Mar. c21/1 At Wilkinson family musicales, each of the 10 children was expected to sing, recite or play an instrument. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871 |
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