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  • noun Plural form of dinner-time.

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Examples

  • All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • 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

  • "Won't it be nice for me to come out at dinner-times?" said Paul.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • "Won't it be nice for me to come out at dinner-times?" said Paul.

    Sons and Lovers 1907

  • All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places.

    American Notes 1842

  • All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places.

    American Notes Charles Dickens 1841

  • 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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