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dinnerette

dinnerette noun: a small dinner.

Noun

dinnerette (plural dinnerettes)

  1. (rare) A 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

Forms of dinnerette

pluraldinnerettes

Origin of dinnerette

From dinner + -ette.

Questions about dinnerette

What does dinnerette mean?
Dinnerette means a small dinner.
What part of speech is dinnerette?
Dinnerette is a noun.
What is the plural of dinnerette?
The plural of dinnerette is dinnerettes.

Words near dinnerette in the dictionary

  1. dinner-times
  2. dinnerbone
  3. dinnerboned
  4. dinnerboning
  5. dinnered
  6. dinnerette
  7. dinnerettes
  8. dinnering
  9. dinnerladies
  10. dinnerlady
  11. dinnerless

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