dinner dance

American  

noun

1. a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.

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dinner-dance British  

noun

1. a formal dinner followed by dancing

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Etymology

Origin of dinner dance

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

On the night of the shooting, Michalski was in Garden Grove for a gala dinner dance he had organized with his wife.

From Los Angeles Times

Against that backdrop was the contention from some — fair to a point — that UFW was a weak union that hadn’t organized so much as a dinner dance in decades.

From Los Angeles Times

"I was playing every pub, club and hole in the hedge, before the band, at a dinner dance, before the karaoke," Kielty explains.

From BBC

Partners, who were named every two years, were feted at a black-tie dinner dance known internally as the “prom.”

From New York Times

The 500 guests at the American Theater Wing dinner dance at the Plaza Hotel on April 1, 1956, were not the only ones who saw Gwen Verdon, Paul Muni, Bob Fosse and Lotte Lenya accepting their Tony Awards.

From New York Times