dinnerette
nounEtymology From dinner + -ette.
1
Rare A small dinner.
- And he has a luxurious bachelor's first floor in Piccadilly, overlooking the Park, where he sometimes gives excellent dinnerettes, and where in the short hours he concocts country-house comedies, and dashes off love-lyrics and nonsense-verses […]1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871, volume 2, page 74: