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Lawn party   /lɔn pˈɑrti/   Listen
Lawn party

noun
1.
A party of people assembled for social interaction out of doors.  Synonyms: fete champetre, garden party.






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"Lawn party" Quotes from Famous Books



... perversely not to be so. She was amazingly gracious to it—still with one exception. She melted to frivolity and the dance of mirth. She affected joy in its music and confessed to a new feeling for Jerusalem after attending a lawn party at which Eustace Eubanks did his best to please. She spoke of this to Eustace with a crafty implication that it had remained for him to interpret the antique graces of that storied place to a world all too heedless. Eustace himself felt not only a renewed interest in the ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

... excels in is the acknowledgment of courtesy, which is itself as great a courtesy as the performance of kindness. If she is invited to a lawn party or a boating picnic, whether she accept or not, she pays a visit to her hostess afterward and expresses her pleasure or her regrets; and she pays it with promptness, and not with tardy reluctance, as if it were a burden. If she has ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various

... and as many as could find room crowded into it, and were speedily rowed across the river and landed on the other side, where they found a few of the lawn party there before them. ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth



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