What is "soiree"

Usage examples of "soiree".

Imperial soirees, and as often thought would do better at running the Empire than their bemedalled spouses.

Otherwise Chatterford should continue just as it is, the soirees decreasing in frequency until they simply lapse, the entertainment staff being transferred to Joy Hall.

French doors in your office, resulting in an enhancement to the size and frequency of the famous Chatterford soiree.

I had the complete command of their affections, for at any moment I could make their young hearts bound and their old hearts jump by offering a handful of tobacco, and yet, believe me, it was not in the first SOIREE that my store of Latakia was exhausted.

In the country, however, her soirees tend to be, shall we say, somewhat less structured and restricted.

She devoured, without skipping a work, all the accounts of first nights, races, and soirees, took interest in the debut of a singer, in the opening of a new shop.

He had been appearing at the same balls and soirees as she and Felicity during the past week.

But how would you have a Parisienne of the wealthy bourgeoisie undertake the duty, the long brave task of nursing a child, when she leads the life she does, what with receptions and dinners and soirees, and absences and social obligations of all sorts?

Would not one like to attend twenty consecutive soirees, at each one of which the lion of the party should be the Man of the Monument, at the beginning of each century, all the way, we will say, from Anno Domini 2000 to Ann.

Right now they're getting ready to heave some august old chappy after eight solid days of memorial drinking, testimonial orgies, inheritance soirees, and commemorative gluttony.

As soon as I realized what had to be done, I immediately tracked down Trevor at the Atkinses’ soiree and spoke to him first.

Though marriage was deferred until later, girls became betrothable at twenty, and all students over twenty attended the soirees.

At cockail parties, soirees, premieres, and so on, she will usually be accompanied by one or other of her parents, but after a few months she will begin to arrive alone, still a rather hesitant figure, slightly ill at ease about the aggressive sexiness of her catsuits and leotards, continually on edge about her appearance, until, during her second year of social immersion, she will be widely celebrated for her aplomb, verbal asperity, and daring and expertise in bed.

Every rococo desire the mind of man might, in its perverse ingenuity, devise found ample gratification here, amongst the halls of mirrors, the flagellation parlours, the cabarets of nature-defying copulations and the ambiguous soirees held by men-women and female men.

Lady Melberry has invited you to attend a musical soiree this evening.