dinner dance
dinner dance noun: a formal social event that includes a dinner, followed by dancing, typically held in the evening.
Noun
dinner dance (plural dinner dances)
- A formal social event that includes a dinner, followed by dancing, typically held in the evening.
- With that, they surrendered to the ritual of the modern dinner-dance, returning to their table between dances to drink and smoke and exchange talk on an established key of intimacy, with the peculiar sense of privacy that two people may maintain in a crowd by rejecting all communion with it.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 172
Forms of dinner dance
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Questions about dinner dance
- What does dinner dance mean?
- Dinner dance means a formal social event that includes a dinner, followed by dancing, typically held in the evening.
- What part of speech is dinner dance?
- Dinner dance is a noun.
- What is the plural of dinner dance?
- The plural of dinner dance is dinner dances.
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