ridotto
noun
a public ball or dance with music and often in masquerade, popular in the 18th century.
ridottos
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pluralof ridotto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Drums, routs, auctions, ridottos, and masquerades did not avail to keep their votaries abed.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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 Charles Edward Pearce
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
No novelist has described so well or so fully the aspect of the theatres, of Vauxhall and Ranelagh, of Bath in the season, of the ridottos and assemblies of the London fashionable world.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
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
