after-dinner

[ af-ter-din-er, ahf- ]

adjective

Origin of after-dinner

First recorded in 1570–80

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Outside, to the left of the revolving doors, is where he would smoke his after-dinner cigarette.
Michael Hastings' Hunger for Life | Jack Gray | June 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
A school classroom suddenly seems like an after-dinner speech.
Redford Takes on Rahm in the Furious Blur of ‘Chicagoland’ | Tim Teeman | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It may be something to do with the embarrassment of trying to maintain after-dinner conversation.
Olympics Kickoff: Boris Johnson on London’s Sporty Side | Boris Johnson | July 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Victorians were so energetic that in the 1880s they came up with a new after-dinner entertainment.
Olympics Kickoff: Boris Johnson on London’s Sporty Side | Boris Johnson | July 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Jennie Yabroff on the new frontier in after-dinner indulgence.
High-Concept Desserts from Star Chefs | Jennie Yabroff | January 15, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

Agnes was often a visitor at Bungay, and not a little shocked at the atrocious after-dinner talk of the Bungay Radicals.
East Anglia | J. Ewing Ritchie
He did not like to disturb his after-dinner nap, and he settled back in his chair again and refolded his hands.
Gallegher and Other Stories | Richard Harding Davis
It looked to me like an after-dinner nap, but I was told it was magnetic.
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
These regrets rose stronger, when his after-dinner courage returned to him as he sate solitary over his fire.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony Trollope
No one has ever told of his "silver tongue," or remembered a brilliant after-dinner speech that he has made.
Steam Steel and Electricity | James W. Steele

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