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They were professional diners-out, who noticed details — why does she allow her butler to cut the cucumbers with a steel knife?

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

New ski hotels in the Caucasus attract rising young bureaucrats and party officials, and diners-out in Moscow can see an elaborate floor show at the huge Arbat restaurant, with gypsy dancing, jugglers and magicians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Restaurant patrons often complain of being taken, but in inflationary 1974 it is the diners-out who are doing the taking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago, some of the diners-out began to drop out, abandoning the scene to turn into couch potatoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gentlemen who live by their wits, and diners-out in particular, will find Mr. T. Hood’s system of incalculable service.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 by Various