petit souper

petit souper

English

Etymology

From French petit souper.

Noun

petit souper (plural petits soupers)

1. A light supper; (especially), an informal dinner party with only a few select guests. [from 18th c.]
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 104:

     She had given a card-assembly, and a petit-souper; […] Mrs. Chartres told her son, with an air of triumph, that the evening had gone off remarkably well.