dinnerette

English

Etymology

From dinner +‎ -ette.

Noun

dinnerette (plural dinnerettes)

1. (rare) A small dinner.
   • 1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871, volume 2, page 74:

     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 […]