ridotto
Americannoun
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ridottos
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ridotto
1715–25; < Italian: retreat, resort; see redoubt
Example Sentences
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On Monday we go to a ridotto, and on Wednesday we return to Howard Grove.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
He was awaiting Rotherby, with whom—as he told the company—he was for a frolic at Drury Lane, where a ridotto was following the play.
From The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini
On Sunday there is a ball at the ridotto.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
At the ridotto she must equally feign ignorance of modish dancing--she whose nimble feet had tripped to every measure since she could stand alone.
From A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett
He would sometimes return early from assembly, rout, or ridotto to pay a visit to Mr. Ripple.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
The great officers banquet him at dinner; in the evenings; there are plays, operas, ridottos, and masquerades.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
Drums, routs, auctions, ridottos, and masquerades did not avail to keep their votaries abed.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
Four months, in which there will be no routes, no shows, no ridottos; in which visits must be regulated by the weather, and assemblies will depend upon the moon!
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
Twice a-week there are to be ridottos, at guinea tickets, for which you are to have a supper and music.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
No ridottos were so gorgeous as those of Dublin; no equipages so sumptuous; no nobles so magnificently reckless.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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