dinner dance
noun
a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
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dinner-dancenouna formal dinner followed by dancing
dinner dance
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Etymology
Origin of dinner dance
First recorded in 1900–05
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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 ● Sep. 28, 2022
"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 ● Dec. 29, 2021
Partners, who were named every two years, were feted at a black-tie dinner dance known internally as the “prom.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
There is the picnic, the dinner dance and a Sunday morning chapel service.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2015
Whenever Halloween fell during the week, since we were so isolated, Pine Mountain would have a dinner dance.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Five people were in the car when it crashed on its way to a debutants' ball - a dinner-dance event for school-leavers - at about 18:45 local time Monday.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023
Patti, 63, describes one of her most ambitious catering challenges: a 2010 dinner-dance that drew 81 guests, organized by the Rainbow Club, the community's gay and lesbian social club.
From Time ● Jun. 11, 2011
At Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Tunku skipped most of his lectures, seldom missed a tea or dinner-dance, distinguished himself mainly by picking up 28 traffic violations in his silver Riley with red fenders.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was leaving Mrs. Fenwick's dinner-dance in response to an appeal from Anne Thorpe, who had sent for him by messenger earlier in the evening.
From From the Housetops by F. Graham Cootes
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