Meanings
noundinner-hour (plural dinner-hours)
plural dinner-hours
- alternativeAlternative form of dinner hour.
Mr. Crawford meant to be in town by his uncle’s accustomary late dinner-hour, and William was invited to dine with him at the Admiral’s.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 200
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