garden party

noun

1. a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.

garden party

noun

1. a social gathering held in the grounds of a house, school, etc, usually with light refreshments

Word History and Origins

Origin of garden party¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

They spot a handsome Clark Kent lookalike at a garden party.

From The Daily Beast

Pariahs in elite media circles, reporters there tend to revel in being the bad boys and girls at the garden party.

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Extraordinarily, Prince Philip was in full public view today, attending a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.

From The Daily Beast

Kate underwent another rite of passage today when she attended her first Buckingham Palace garden party.

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So how did this proverbial skunk at the garden party obtain his tickets to the events?

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Every year, about the middle of September, its return was celebrated at a garden-party given by the Levines.

From Project Gutenberg

Another splendid royal entertainment was a large garden party in the fort of Delhi.

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The bride would have no formality, but moved about among her friends as if it were simply a garden party.

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She remembered in a kind of daze that she had been at a garden-party that very afternoon.

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It had been a garden-party, say, with one's life at stake from pressure of the crowd.

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