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soiree

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soiree
an evening party or other gathering given usually at a private house, esp where guests are invited to listen to, play, or dance to music


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In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing.
Having thanked Anna Pavlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began to take their leave.
Soon after her return from Moscow, on arriving at a soiree where she had expected to meet him, and not finding him there, she realized distinctly from the rush of disappointment that she had been deceiving herself, and that this pursuit was not merely not distasteful to her, but that it made the whole interest of her life.
 
 
 
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