supper-hour
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See also: supper hour
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
supper-hour (plural supper-hours)
- Alternative form of supper hour
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 227–228:
- She would much rather not have been asked by him again so very soon, and she wished she had not been obliged to suspect that his previous inquiries of Mrs. Norris, about the supper-hour, were all for the sake of securing her at that part of the evening.