dinnery

comparative more dinnery · superlative most dinnery

1. informalOf or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.

   It was evening, the hour when warm dinnery smells pervaded the walls and whiffs of other people’s trays came a-visiting.

   c. 1943, Emily Carr, “Red Roses”, in Ann-Lee Switzer, editor, This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr, TouchWood Editions, published 2011

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   “For with an invalid so much depends on tranquillity. In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so—so what shall I call it? so dinnery,—the smell of meals never seems to leave it; it would have been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw out that window—”

   1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 44, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC