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Dutch feasts

Dutch feasts is the plural of Dutch feast.

Meaning of Dutch feast

Noun

Dutch feast (plural Dutch feasts)

  1. (archaic) An entertainment where the host becomes drunk before the guests.
    • We sat to a late hour, but, as I wished to avoid making a Dutch feast of it, I acted with caution and kept tolerably sober.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 72

Questions about Dutch feasts

What is Dutch feasts the plural of?
Dutch feasts is the plural of Dutch feast.

Words near Dutch feasts in the dictionary

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  4. Dutch elms
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  8. Dutch gable
  9. Dutch gables
  10. Dutch garden
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