单词 | after-supper |
释义 | after-supper|ˌɑːftə ˈsʌpə(r), æ-| [after- 1.] The time that intervened between supper (when this was at an earlier hour) and bed-time. Obs. or dial. except attrib., like after-dinner. Also Obs. = rere-supper (quots. 1590 and 1637).
1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 34 This long age of three houres, Between our after supper and bed-time. 1637Rutherford Lett. 82 (1862) I. 207 It is near after-supper. 1832Miss Mitford Our Village Ser. v. (1863) 355, I left him in the hall, just settling quietly to an after-supper nap. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxxii. 312 His unpremeditated after-supper stroll. 1879F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience I. ii. vii. 254 An evening party, in the full vigour of its after-supper dances. |

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