ridotto
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Origin of ridotto
1715–25; < Italian: retreat, resort; see redoubt
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To-night, as on the last night in the year, there is generally a ridotto, which means a masked ball.
From The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Kasimir Dziekonska (translator)
On the opening of the New Assembly Rooms at Bath, which commenced with a ridotto, Sept.
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas
Venice is in the estro of her carnival, and I have been up these last two nights at the ridotto and the opera, and all that kind of thing.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
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 Barrett, Frank
On Sunday there is a ball at the ridotto.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
Drums, routs, auctions, ridottos, and masquerades did not avail to keep their votaries abed.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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 Johnson, Samuel
It was September; with the colder weather came the waning of the Hampstead season, the fashionable folk were returning to London and preparing for masquerades, ridottos, the theatres and the opera.
From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward
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 Cunningham, Peter
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 Wingfield, Lewis
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