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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 Cunningham, Peter

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

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

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

Drums, routs, auctions, ridottos, and masquerades did not avail to keep their votaries abed.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton