diner-out
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of diner-out
1800–10; dine out + -er 1
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In term-time Walter Starkie is professor of Spanish literature in Dublin University, a director of the Abbey Theatre, the most indefatigable diner-out in Dublin, with a finger in every literary, academic and musical pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Vice President is the administration's prime diner-out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did you ever meet a diner-out of sufficient strength of mind to ask for "cabbage?"
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Young as he was, Robert was old for his age, and a capital diner-out, and he had the art of accommodating himself to his audience.
From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss
Talking of the bad effects of late hours Sydney Smith said of a distinguished diner-out that it would be written on his tomb, "He dined late."
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
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
Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor.
From Time Magazine Archive
After dinner, he sat down on a big davenport and fell into conversation with Political Columnist Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times's Washington bureau and one of the capital's most indefatigable diners-out.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Meanwhile the discussion was a god-send to fashionable diners-out and to those cultivated leaders of society who prefer to talk through the Opera and philharmonic.
From The Common Law by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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