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Definition of Entertainments
1. entertainment [n] - See also: entertainment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entertainments
Literary usage of Entertainments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"His best sea- songs nearly all appeared in these entertainments, ... His entertainments
were held | the war by so high an authority as the Edin- in ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"But at Court, and in the spheres of life connected with or subservient to the
Court, the list of plays, masques and other entertainments is continuous from ..."
3. Catalogue by Williams College, Hebrew Union College (1913)
"THOMPSON COURSE OF Entertainments This course, ... Last year entertainments were
given by Mrs. Goold and Mrs. David, Soprano and Harp; The American String ..."
4. Recollections of Mexico by Waddy Thompson (1846)
"Kindness and Courtesy—Society of Dinner Parties and Entertainments— Mexican Ladies
wanting in ... It is not the fashion to give entertainments of any sort. ..."
5. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1892)
"Entertainments. The City of Montreal will ever be remembered by the ... The complete
programme, in respect to entertainments, was not only carried out as ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"He very frequently invited them to familiar entertainments, ... 1223,) sneaks of
these entertainments, ua senator who had supped with the emperor. ..."
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