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Convivial meals are taken house-party style, with younger ones given a high tea and then whisked away for DVDs and popcorn, leaving grown-ups to play at being lords and ladies for the night.

Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives 2011

A number of D.C. lounges have sought to emulate ESL style in ensuing years, from the couch-strewn rooms to the warm, house-party feel of the space.

Nightlife Agenda: Eighteenth Street Lounge anniversary, Animal Collective, Hot Chip 2010

Then at the last minute, blessed if one of Daisy's aged relatives didn't croak, and since it would not have done for dear Lady Flashman to attend their foul house-party unaccompanied, I was dragooned cursing into service.

Watershed 2010

… We had our cousins come up, and so had a regular house-party.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

The photographs taken at Sawai Madhopur, triumphant scenes in which the royal house-party stand guard over the handsome corpses, betray almost nothing plate 13.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

And our Micah Sifry notes that Obama's "crowdsourcing" around his economic recovery plan can still draw eyeballs, noting that the video address sent out to house-party hosts has already pulled in nearly 700,000 views.

Daily Digest: Grading OFA's Organizing, Building a Bill Buffer, Remixing the President 2009

She described how, on one occasion, a Russian princess who was traveling with the Mentmore house-party to watch the Derby at Epsom prevailed on Hannah to practice her power of suggestion upon her.

Rothschild Women. 2009

Call it an Agatha Christie house-party picture that reveals the intricacies of class and sex in a way that Christie never could.

Gosford Park (2001) elena maria vidal 2009

Call it an Agatha Christie house-party picture that reveals the intricacies of class and sex in a way that Christie never could.

Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009

While brave enough to insist upon being taken out with the house-party for the ritual tiger shoots, Jai was ordered straight back to bed by Dr Huban, his English physician.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009