单词 | petit souper |
释义 | petit soupern. A little supper, esp. a small, informal dinner party to which only a few intimate friends are invited. 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 1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb ii. 195 I had..proposed to her..my having the honour of giving her a petit souper at my pleasure-house. 1765 Ann. Reg. ii. 56 Those petit-soupers of which the king [of France] is so fond. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/1 Among the guests who often staid Till the Devil's petits-soupers. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 25 Apr. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) II. v. 138 After the concert a petit-souper. 1874 Ld. Lytton Fables in Song I. 90 O pleasant petits soupers of the past! Wild, wicked, witty evenings, gone so fast! 1916 D. Barnes in A. Berry New York (1989) (title) Last Petit Souper. 2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 7 Feb. e6 Cost is $25, includes networking and petit souper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1751 |
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