Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Suggesting dinner; having the odor of dinner.

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Examples

  • The triclinia were open at one end, i.e. not shut up as our dining-rooms are, and the air would not get close and "dinnery."

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • The _table d'hôte_ was at five o'clock; I did not wish to go to the expense of a private sitting-room, disliked the dinnery atmosphere of the _salle à manger_, could not play either at pool or billiards, and the aspect of my fellow guests was unprepossessing enough to make me unwilling to enter into any _tête-à-tête_ gamblings with them.

    Curious, if True Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • The _table d'hôte_ was at five o'clock; I did not wish to go to the expense of a private sitting-room, disliked the dinnery atmosphere of the _salle à manger_, could not play either at pool or billiards, and the aspect of my fellow guests was unprepossessing enough to make me unwilling to enter into any _tête-à-tête_ gamblings with them.

    The Grey Woman and other Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so -- so what shall I call it? so dinnery, -- the smell of meals never seems to leave it; it would have been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw out that window -- '

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: Bond, Tatiana, and Grant at dinnery & Bond vs. Grant fight

    CommanderBond.net 2009

  • FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: Bond, Tatiana, and Grant at dinnery & Bond vs. Grant fight

    CommanderBond.net 2009

  • FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: Bond, Tatiana, and Grant at dinnery & Bond vs. Grant fight

    CommanderBond.net 2009

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