Meanings
noundinnerette (plural dinnerettes)
plural dinnerettes
- rareA small dinner.
And he has a luxurious bachelor's first floor in Piccadilly, overlooking the Park, where he sometimes gives excellent dinnerettes, and where in the short hours he concocts country-house comedies, and dashes off love-lyrics and nonsense-verses […]
1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871, volume 2, page 74
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