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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It was late when the strangely assorted convives separated.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
The uniformity of costume appears to represent uniformity of sentiment and to ensure a sort of harmony amongst the convives.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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
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.
"There is Peter the Prior, and Francis the Friar, And Roger the Monk shall our convives be; Small scandal I ween shall then be seen: They are a goodly companie!"
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
