soirée

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I will confess to you, Beauchamp, I attended that soirée from curiosity to see whether M. Guizot retained his habitual placidity of manner amid the clouds every day thickening around him. "

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  1. An evening party or reunion: as, a musical soirée. Mrs. Tuffin was determined she would not ask Philip to her soirées. Thackeray, Philip, xxiii.

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  • Whether you will celebrate, commiserate, or be completely irate-this is the election night soirée for you. —  WordPress.com News
  • "Yes, neither more nor less, and I intend to add to this _soirée_ a ball." —  The Son of Monte-Cristo
  • Goutran, when she consented to sing at his _soirée_. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo
  • "Rather a different affair this from the Ministerial soirée a week ago, —  Edmond Dantès
  • This _soirée_, and this treason and rupture at the end of a year, completely crushed Mme. Bourjot. —  Renée Mauperin
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  1. from French soirée, serée, Norman dial. série, evening-tide, an evening party, = Italian serata, evening-tide. from Late Latin *serare, become late, from Latin serus, late in the day, neuter serum, evening, later Italian sera = Provencal ser, sera = French soir, evening. Cf. serotine.
 

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