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1754 Young Lady Conducted xi. 151 I don't pretend to speak in favour of the Dinner and Supper Parties, the whole Day Visits you are pleas'd to be so merry upon.

1793 S. Gunning Mem. Mary V. xiv. 177 So many of them were seized with sudden indisposition, that our supper party was thinned of half of those who were expected to stay.

1808 Monthly Pantheon 1 684/2 The more gay and fashionable may go to balls or supper parties.

1810 E. Meeke tr. Voltaire in Unpubl. Corr. Madame du Deffand II. 283 Truly, Madam, I should greatly enjoy being of your supper-party with the President Renault and the Marshal de Richelieu.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair liv. 485 He had been at a fast supper-party, given the night before.

1911 E. P. Oppenheim Havoc xxiv. 194 Laverick walked into Luigi's Restaurant at about a quarter to twelve, and found the place crowded with many little supper-parties on their way to a fancy dress ball.

1968 Ebony Dec. 54/3 (caption) At supper party (right) in St. Regis Hotel after the opera, Miss Verrett enters with Marian Anderson and impresario Sol Hurok, the party host.

2008 D. Lebedoff Same Man ii. 30 The Oxford authorities began to take notice of this crowd when one of the Hypocrites, Lord Clonmore, gave a supper party on the roof of a church.