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alt. A guest in whose honour a gathering is held n. A guest in whose honour a gathering is held
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Guest of Honour is a 1934 British comedy film directed by George King and starring Henry Kendall, Miki Hood, Edward Chapman and Joan Playfair. In the film, an aristocrat unmasks a blackmailer. It is based on F. Anstey's 1903 play The Man from Blankley's which had been made as a 1920 Paramount silent The Fourteenth Man and the 1930 John Barrymore talkie The Man from Blankley's.
Guest of honour or Guest of honor may refer to:
- A Guest of Honor (opera), a c. 1903 American opera
- Guest of Honour (film), a 1934 British comedy film
- A Guest of Honuor (novel), a 1970 South African novel
- Someone who performs a guest appearance
- A high-profile science fiction convention guest
Usage examples of "guest of honour".
Sam had begged to be allowed to wait on his master, but had been told that for this time he was a guest of honour.
I found myself in a steady whirl of receptions, luncheons, dinners, teas, and assemblies of rather a pretentious character, at the greater number of which I was obliged to appear as the guest of honour.
Then, suddenly realizing that when the guest of honour finished one course, the plates would be changed and the next course served, they fell to in a frenzied effort to catch up.
As a guest of honour I was taken into the bridal chamber, where the walls and the bridal bed were hung with old gently glowing weavings and embroideries, and the dark-eyed young bride herself was stiff, like a marshal's baton with heavy silks, gold and amber.
The film people were delighted with him, as entrepreneurs always are with anybody who looks as if he could draw in money, and at dinner he was clearly the guest of honour.
Again her eye wandered to Monica, who, as the supposed guest of honour, was showing little zeal for the party which lay ahead.
The latter had been almost a guest of honour at the wardroom dinner, and was probably well pleased with the sudden popularity his sister's presence had given him.