Fails to hold secret, separate, social occasions

Usage examples of dinner parties.

There was still the hunting establishment which Nicholas had even enlarged, the same fifty horses and fifteen grooms in the stables, the same expensive presents and dinner parties to the whole district on name days.

Many family dinner parties were planned by her completely, and she persuaded Juhen to make his last trip to Europe in 1896, at which time she and he toured the capitals from Madrid to London.

She did not look as she had looked on the witness stand, nor as he remembered her at dinner parties.