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dining

/ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/ noun A2
  1. Eating dinner as a social function. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Entertaining someone to dinner. (countable, uncountable)

Plural dinings

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They had supper in the big, beautifully decorated dining room; Diana and Jane were invited to partake of this, also, since they had come with Anne, but Billy was nowhere to be found, having decamped in mortal fear of some such invitation.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 285 · C1
Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 2 · C1
Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 27 · B2
“I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 76 · B2

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