Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A program of music performed at a party or social gathering.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A performance or concert of music, vocal or instrumental, or both, usually of a private character; a private concert.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun colloq. A social musical party.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A musical entertainment, usually private and typically involving classical music

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from (soirée) musicale, musical (evening), feminine of musical, from musique, music; see music.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the French soirée musicale

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Examples

  • The musicale is a success, one of the enviable events of the season, and there is a most charming supper afterward.

    Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • Sebastian Dolores had impatiently waited for this later "musicale" to begin -- he had heard it often before; and when it was at last a regular succession of nasal explosions, he crawled out and began to do the business which had brought him to the Manor

    The Money Master, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Sebastian Dolores had impatiently waited for this later "musicale" to begin -- he had heard it often before; and when it was at last a regular succession of nasal explosions, he crawled out and began to do the business which had brought him to the Manor

    The Money Master, Volume 4. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Sebastian Dolores had impatiently waited for this later "musicale" to begin -- he had heard it often before; and when it was at last a regular succession of nasal explosions, he crawled out and began to do the business which had brought him to the Manor

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Funny thing is the second word in the wv was "musicale" but I noticed as I hit submit that I had typed "misicale", no worries mate, it posted anyway.

    ScrappleFace 2008

  • J'ai surtout apprecie la phrase "la longue ligne musicale" du courbe de Mont Ventoux.

    rubrique - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Enfin, en arrière plan, se dessine la longue ligne musicale des deux courbes asymétriques du Mont Ventoux.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Enfin, en arrière plan, se dessine la longue ligne musicale des deux courbes asymétriques du Mont Ventoux.

    rubrique - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Jackson Rathbone dirige un video musicale | Twilight Italia says:

    Twilight Lexicon » Jackson Rathbone Directs Music Video 2010

  • Enfin, en arrière plan, se dessine la longue ligne musicale des deux courbes asymétriques du Mont Ventoux.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

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