swarryn.
/ˈswɒri/ = soirée n.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > evening gathering
conversazione1740
evening party1742
sociable1750
evening1791
soirée1793
Gregory1804
veillée1825
tertulia1828
swarry1837
social evening1844
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxvi. 393 A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xlii. 381 At one of her swarreys I saw one of 'em speak to a dam fiddler.
1884 Illustr. London News 15 Nov. 467/2 The complaint of the ‘English Hostess’ that ladies and gentlemen invited to dinner have become so..unpunctual that, as the lady calls it: ‘There will be no dinners in London and we shall be reduced to cold swarries.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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