单词 | rent dinner |
释义 | > as lemmasrent dinner rent dinner n. ΚΠ 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 324/1 They would invite all farmers to a rent-dinner. 1905 H. Evans Highways & Byways in Oxf. & Cotswolds iv. 84 At some colleges the annual rent dinner is still kept up. 1981 J. Robin Elmdon viii. 158 The tenant's place at the annual rent dinner. 2007 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 23 Feb. 28 Newspaper reports of the time talked in awed tones of the ‘rent dinners’, when Lord Dartmouth's better-off tenants would gather for three days of feasting, with fine food and wines. < as lemmas |
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