supper-hour

A form of supper hour — suppertime, the hour in which the supper meal takes place.

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Meanings

nounsupper-hour (plural supper-hours)

plural supper-hours

  1. alternativeAlternative form of supper hour.

    She would much rather not have been asked by him again so very soon, and she wished she had not been obliged to suspect that his previous inquiries of Mrs. Norris, about the supper-hour, were all for the sake of securing her at that part of the evening.

    1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 227–228
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