convive
noun
an eating or drinking companion; fellow diner or drinker.
convives
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pluralof convive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Bad as was the fare on that abandoned breakfast-table, it must, nevertheless, have been superior to that usually partaken of by the convives who had taken the place of the fugitive king and princes.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
Canterbury Registrars and fat pluralists will cut up one of these days sufficiently well to supply the needful: in the mean time let the convives of the earthworm feed without the walls.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Ever since, my convives, apprised of this mortal frailty of mine, time their remarks more prudently, and allow me to take alternately a joke and a morsel.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
A doubt of Braun's ultimate end as a citizen had caused the smug dealer to always avoid Braun at the jolly Restaurant Bavaria, where the good-natured foreign convives often joined each other over a stein.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Savage, Richard
All the convives had their eyes fixed on De Chavagnac, who, after placing the Psyche in safety, reapproached the pedestal, which was about three feet high and one and one half in circumference.
From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de
