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- noun Plural form of
dinner-time .
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Examples
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All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places.
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These dinner-times came very early in the day; and long before it was time to go home in the afternoon, we became even more hungry than we had been in the morning, -- but our baskets had been emptied.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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"Won't it be nice for me to come out at dinner-times?" said Paul.
Sons and Lovers 1913
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"Won't it be nice for me to come out at dinner-times?" said Paul.
Sons and Lovers 1907
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All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places.
American Notes 1842
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All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places.
American Notes Charles Dickens 1841
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He also began, as Mrs Todgers said, to slip home 'in his dinner-times,' and to get away from 'the office' at unholy seasons; and twice, as he informed Mrs Todgers himself, he received anonymous letters, enclosing cards from Furniture Warehouses -- clearly the act of that ungentlemanly ruffian Jinkins; only he hadn't evidence enough to call him out upon.
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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