coffee-party

Annemarie issued invitations for a coffee-party; the Professor as grimly retired, with an armful of books, to the seclusion of a sunless attic; and a round dozen of ladies, armed with work-bags and satchels, arrived to sit in circle about the wax-cloth of the dinner-table.

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

One of her friends has a coffee-party and she invited us to it.

Bertha Mary Hazelton Wade

Gretchen and gave her some cakes she had brought her from the coffee-party.

Bertha Mary Hazelton Wade

Hans hurried away, and was soon entering the house of a little friend who was celebrating her birthday with a coffee-party.

Bertha Mary Hazelton Wade

It ended, of course, with their asking him to join their coffee-party.

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

She did not yet know their names, but names are a detail compared with personalities, and with some members of the coffee-party she felt that she might ultimately become chums.

The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907

The footmen hurried off to discuss matters, and the chambermaids gave a great coffee-party.

The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894

All this rather turned Nat's head; and as he sat in the brilliant opera-house, chatted among the ladies at some select coffee-party, or whisked an eminent professor's amiable daughter down the room, trying to imagine she was Daisy, he often asked himself if this gay fellow could be the poor homeless little Street musician who once stood waiting in the rain at the gates of Plumfield.

Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott 1860

_saki_ are, however, of native manufacture; but even in a well-provided Japanese household there is seldom so much porcelain as would be required for a proper coffee-party at home.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866