单词 | ice cream supper |
释义 | > as lemmasice cream supper ice cream supper n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) a social gathering at supper time at which ice cream (and sometimes other food) is served, typically organized as a fund-raising event; cf. ice cream social n. ΚΠ 1861 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 6 July The ladies invited them to a picnic at Woods' Grove, and Mrs Garrett gives them an ice cream supper at night. 1914 Missouri State Board of Agric. Monthly Bull. Apr. 99 The women..have to call on the men for money when they get ready for their ice cream suppers and other money-making activities. 1988 M. A. Grissom Southern by Grace of God iii. 73 The poverty-stricken women of the South..could have dispensed with their..ice cream suppers.., with which they laboriously gathered in their nickles and dimes. 2005 Lockhart (Texas) Post.-Reg. 18 Aug. 1 c/1 The Fentress United Methodist Church hosted an Ice Cream Supper and Sing-A-Long complete with homemade ice cream, cake and sugar cones. < as lemmas |
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