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Definition of Hen party
1. Noun. A party for women only.
Definition of Hen party
1. Noun. (British) A party held for a woman who is about to be married. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hen Party
Literary usage of Hen party
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Dame Curtsey's" book of party pastimes for the up-to-date hostess by Ellye Howell Glover (1912)
"A hen party DON'T for one minute think that this party was merely a convocation
of the gentler sex. The men were the instigators, and this is the way it all ..."
2. The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering by Jessup Whitehead (1903)
"... where, it being a " hen party," the ices appeared in the shape of a b'g motherly
hen sitting In a nest of spun sugar surrounded by eggs of vari-colored ..."
3. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888)
"At the south the Whigs were divided, one section advocating the new policy, while
the other concurred with I hen- party friends at the north on the first ..."