afterdinner

Smokers will leave the restaurant sooner to go have their afterdinner smoke, instead of lingering inside.

Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 17, 2006 2006

After dinner we returned to my place and sat on the patio under the glow of the party lights as we sipped an afterdinner drink.

badger Diary Entry badger 2005

Then they come back here and make afterdinner speeches and propose that we adopt such a system here.

Canada's Adversary System—Is There an Alternative? 1977

Raymond, who was not an RPI graduate, but was widely known as an afterdinner speaker, was asked to come and give a special toast.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

MR.C. P. TISDALL was in the Chair and introduced the speaker, who said: The subject which your Chairman asked me to speak about is rather technical in its nature, and one which in most communities would be regarded as a dry subject for an afterdinner discourse.

Canada's Interest in the Recent Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Matter of the Chicago Drainage Canal 1930

'He is a small, sleek-headed bachelor of five and forty, whose scandalous life has long furnished his more moral neighbors with an afterdinner joke.'

A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915

He was a special favourite in social circles, and being a brilliant afterdinner speaker he was much in demand to grace numerous festive gatherings.

The Unknown Wrestler 1910

You will hear afterdinner speeches in England at which Imperialism is beautifully talked about, and in which our consanguinity is certainly not denied, but as a matter of fact we are just a little different from a Briton born in the Islands in their estimation.

Practical Imperialism 1904

Antoinette, who disapproves of the amorphous British lumps of sugar, has found some emporium where she can buy the regular parallelopiped of the Continent, and these she provides for my afterdinner coffee.

The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

The words of the afterdinner speaker who, when sober, is a sedate and earnest gentleman, flow with unusual ease.

Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893