单词 | visite de digestion |
释义 | > as lemmasvisite de digestion 3. visite de digestion, a formal call paid in return for hospitality received. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > courtesy or duty duty call1864 visite de digestion1908 courtesy visit1934 courtesy call1957 1908 Lady R. Churchill Reminisc. iii. 44 The writing of ceremonious notes, the leaving of cards, not to speak of visites de digestion, which even young men were supposed to pay, took up most afternoons. 1971 L. P. Hartley Mrs Carteret Receives 17 I thought it only civil to ask Madame Carteret if we could pay her a farewell visit, not a visite de digestion, but just an acknowledgment of her kindness. < as lemmas |
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