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dinner dances

dinner dances is the plural of dinner dance.

Meaning of dinner dance

Noun

dinner dance (plural dinner dances)

  1. 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

Questions about dinner dances

What is dinner dances the plural of?
Dinner dances is the plural of dinner dance.

Words near dinner dances in the dictionary

  1. dinner bell
  2. dinner bells
  3. dinner camp
  4. dinner camps
  5. dinner dance
  6. dinner dances
  7. dinner dress
  8. dinner dresses
  9. dinner fork
  10. dinner forks
  11. dinner hour

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