shore dinner

noun

a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.

Origin of shore dinner

¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Words Nearby shore dinner

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How to use shore dinner in a sentence

I used to have heart trouble so bad I'd breathe like a fish at a shore dinner—and look at me now!
Just Around the Corner | Fannie Hurst
Teddy would rather spend money on Bess than eat a shore dinner.
The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach | Margaret Penrose
From the Indian we got the original idea of the shore dinner and the barbecue, the planked shad and the hoecake.
Cobb's Bill-of-Fare | Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

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