Dutch feast

noun

An entertainment where the host becomes drunk before the guests.

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Meanings

nounDutch feast (plural Dutch feasts)

plural Dutch feasts

  1. archaicAn entertainment where the host becomes drunk before the guests.

    We sat to a late hour, but, as I wished to avoid making a Dutch feast of it, I acted with caution and kept tolerably sober.

    1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 72
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