Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A party at which wine is a chief feature; a drinking-party.
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Examples
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One looks back to what was called a ‘wine-party’ with a sort of wonder.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Independently of the time actually occupied by a wine-party, any excess will, probably, indispose you for study the morning after;
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew Edward Berens
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He must never be seen out of his rooms except at lecture before two o'clock, and never return to a wine-party after chapel.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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He goes to a wine-party, toasts the university officers, sings sentiments, asks for tongs to sugar his coffee, finds his cap and gown stolen and old ones left in their place.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 Various
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One of these young men gave a wine-party in his lodgings, and some one proposed, by way of a lark, to wake up a young woman who lived in the house opposite, and fetch her out of bed, so a rocket was produced and fired through the open window.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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But if it was difficult to get the company together at six o'clock under the friendly disguise of a wine-party, doubly difficult was it to expect them to muster at eleven in the morning.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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One day at a wine-party a man insinuated that he was not really the son of the royal pair.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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I knew _water-drinkers_ at Oxford, who yielded to none of their companions in liveliness and all social qualities, either in their own room or at the wine-party of a friend.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew Edward Berens
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Agathon had won the tragic prize and invited many friends to a wine-party.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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In short, at a tolerably large wine-party there was wasted, or _worse than wasted_, a quantity of Port wine sufficient to check the ravages of a typhus fever in an entire village.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew Edward Berens
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