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House party   /haʊs pˈɑrti/   Listen
House party

noun
1.
A party lasting over one or more nights at a large house.





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"House party" Quotes from Famous Books



... was having a small house party in the country over New Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most fashionable people in New York ...
— Ladies Must Live • Alice Duer Miller
... Lady Polwhele asked the Reverend Dr. Gwyn to let his daughter Delia go with her as companion to a very smart house party, I doubt whether the excellent man would have given so ready an assent had he known what was going to come of it. For my own part I suspected we were in for yet another version of Cinderella, with Delia snubbed by the smart guests, and eventually united, as ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 • Various
... wing of the castle was as still as a mouse on the day my house party arrived. Grim old doors took on new padlocks, keyholes were carefully stopped up; creaking floors were calked; windows were picketed by uncompromising articles of furniture deployed to keep my ruthless refugee from adventuring too ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... her eyes were serious. "I preferred that to having Ruth at a house party at the Martins," ...
— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley
... dim way, I saw it. No cultured person cares to be made a center of public interest, unless on grounds of respect. To come walking in in this fashion, buoyed balloon-like by the body of this loved one, and before the members of a frivolous, gaping house party—ah, even I could imagine the mingled horror and derision, the hysterics among the women, perhaps. Nor would it stop there. Rumors—and heaven only knows what distortions such rumors might undergo, having their source in the incredible—would range our social circle like wildfire. And ...
— Disowned • Victor Endersby
... near the invalid was convalescent, and we opened "Redstone" for a house party. When we returned to New York it was with a feeling ...
— The Romance and Tragedy • William Ingraham Russell
... Penelope and two dilapidated male companions abruptly started to cut across the park in the direction of the stables. "What's up?" Penelope waved her hand aimlessly, but did not change her course. Whereupon the entire house party sallied forth in more or less trepidation to ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... it," he begged. "Look! Here's a letter from the McCallans asking us to their house party in the Adirondacks. We're expected ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard


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