2. Verb. (third-person singular of supper) ¹
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Definition of Suppers
1. supper [n] - See also: supper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppers
Literary usage of Suppers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured. 12. Dinners cannot be
long where ... More people are slain by suppers, than by the sword. 22. ..."
2. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical by Mary Foote Henderson (1889)
"GENTLEMEN'S suppers. As ladies have exclusive lunches, gentlemen have exclusive
suppers. Nearly the same dishes are served for suppers as for lunches, ..."
3. The Cook and Housewife's Manual: Containing the Most Approved Modern by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1828)
"suppers. THE ingenuity of the genteel economist is as often taxed to contrive
supper-things of scanty materials, as in arranging dinners, which admit of ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"SUMPTUOUS suppers, AND PRODI- GALL BANQUETING TIMOTHY, the son of Conon, captain
of the Athenians, leaving his sumptuous fare and royall banqueting, ..."
5. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"It is known that dinners and suppers are everywhere customary, ... But dinners
and suppers of charity are given only among those who are in mutual love from ..."
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