| 单词 | small and early |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall and early small and early adj. and n. now historical (a) adj. designating a small evening party not intended to continue to a late hour; (b) n. a party of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > small small and early1823 partykin1855 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 1 As you return upon a winter's morning from one of the ‘small and early’ parties of that raking metropolis. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 99 For the clearing off of these worthies, Mrs. Podsnap added a small and early evening to the dinner. 1866 Med. Times & Gaz. 6 Oct. 360/1 Men, whose names were never whispered in the ‘at homes’ and ‘small and earlies’ of the season. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. ix. 86 Well, there are not many dinners among them to be sure... Small and earlies. How I hate a ‘small and early’! 1888 H. James Partial Portraits 360 To the afternoon tea, to the fashionable ‘squash’, to the late and suffocating ‘small and early’. 1900 ‘M. Corelli’ Master-Christian xvii. 258 A small and early dinner-party given by the Comtesse that evening. 1944 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 3 263 They were guests of Sir Francis Jeune..and Lady Jeune at one of their famous ‘small and earlies’. < as lemmas |
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