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after-dinner
[ af-ter-din-er, ahf- ]
adjective
- immediately following dinner:
an after-dinner speech.
Word History and Origins
Origin of after-dinner1
Example Sentences
Outside, to the left of the revolving doors, is where he would smoke his after-dinner cigarette.
A school classroom suddenly seems like an after-dinner speech.
It may be something to do with the embarrassment of trying to maintain after-dinner conversation.
The Victorians were so energetic that in the 1880s they came up with a new after-dinner entertainment.
Jennie Yabroff on the new frontier in after-dinner indulgence.
Agnes was often a visitor at Bungay, and not a little shocked at the atrocious after-dinner talk of the Bungay Radicals.
He did not like to disturb his after-dinner nap, and he settled back in his chair again and refolded his hands.
It looked to me like an after-dinner nap, but I was told it was magnetic.
These regrets rose stronger, when his after-dinner courage returned to him as he sate solitary over his fire.
No one has ever told of his "silver tongue," or remembered a brilliant after-dinner speech that he has made.
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