shore dinner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shore dinner
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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With uncustomary vagueness, grandiloquent Dexter Fellows last week announced that on April 14 there would arrive from Havre a mystery exhibit, "Humans that remind you of a New England shore dinner."
From Time Magazine Archive
Lots of people had come for a holiday, a good shore dinner, and then home by dark.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
They touched glasses and got on with a shore dinner of lobsters and clams.
From O+F by Wetterau, John Moncure
They pronounced it equal to the best shore dinner ever prepared, and when finished there was nothing left excepting clam shells and corn cobs.
From Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl by Benson, Irene Elliott
Our cooking may not surprise you, as it is the Scouts' way as well, but we'll give you a change—a shore dinner.
From Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl by Benson, Irene Elliott
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