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单词 sundowner party
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sundowner party
sundowner party n. an evening cocktail party; cf. sense 5b.Originally in British colonial use; later used in some former British colonies, esp. in South and East Africa.
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1954 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Oct. 669/3 The Civil servants and business men whose sundowner parties are the focus of their lives.
1973 Cape Argus 24 Feb. (Mag.) 2 Bearing in mind some rather tart remarks made at last night's sundowner party, he made the forthright statement: ‘Mrs Smith very bad.’
2003 Afr. News (Nexis) 6 Oct. The minister was speaking during the Tea Board of Kenya's (TBK) annual sundowner party at a Nairobi hotel.
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