ridotto

• “Now, climb in here before that babe of yours starts to sneeze.” Kicking off her muddy slippers, Enid obeyed, bounding into the bed with a cheerful force that set the bed frame rocking The following evening, Sabrina was already regretting her decision as Philip rolled her chair to a deserted spot against the wall of the assembly room where the ridotto was being held. —  A WHISPER OF ROSES - TERESA MEDEIROS
• Un altro fascista anche lui, che ha ridotto il paese della libertà ad una succursale dell'italia prendendo spunto da Merdusconi ... —  The Pirate Bay - Blog
• There is an opera and ridotto, and I know not what, besides balls; and so, ever and ever yours B P.S. I send this without revision, so excuse errors. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• There was what they called a ridotto al fresco at Vauxhall,[1] for which one paid half-a-guinea, though, except some thousand more lamps and a covered passage all round the garden, which took off from the gardenhood, there was nothing better than on a common night. —  Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II
• He did not oppose me-so away I went I met them all on the stairs, and returned with them to breakfast I have since been extremely angry with myself for neglecting so excellent an opportunity of apologizing for my behaviour at the ridotto: but, to own the truth, that affair never once occurred to me during the short tete-e-tete which we had together. —  Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

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