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Musicale   Listen
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Musicale  n.  A social musical party. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Musicale" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Berenice was poor in her own right—and what else? Some one had whispered something in his ear. Again there was a certain William Drake Bowdoin, the son of a famous old family, who lived on the north side of Washington Square. After a ball, a morning musicale, and one other affair at which they met Bowdoin took Berenice to see his mother and sister, who were charmed. "Oh, you serene divinity!" he said to her, ecstatically, one day. "Won't you marry me?" Bevy looked at him and wondered. "Let us wait just a little longer, my dear," she counseled. ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... approachable, neighborly person, and at the Country Club dances was quite as attentive to the hitherto unknown Mrs. Scraggs as he was to Mrs. John Jacob Wintergreen, the acknowledged leader of the 400. Mrs. Wintergreen, too, was not unapproachable. She talked pleasantly during a musicale at the club-house with Mr. Scraggs, and said she hoped some day to have the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Scraggs; and when Scraggs, in response, said he would go and get her she most amiably begged him not to leave ...
— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs

... have detected it and abhorred him. He was inclined to believe that he had not been very much set up by the pomp they made for him. At all events, that day at Winter Harbor had been beautiful, full of the laughter of friends and music; for there was a musicale at ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

... last. "Are you coming to the Browning Club this morning? Oh, so sorry! but we shall see you at the musicale this ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

... musicale. A new musician had come to Eos. The former Eos musician, Von Hammer, the father of the prodigy who played the piano, had quarrelled with the Master and had retired to Buffalo. Where, after a brief struggle as teacher of music, he had turned to playing for the movies. It must have nearly ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... all pastimes rather than labours to Janice, there were lighter hours in which she made a fourth at whist, learned chess from the general, and played on the harpsichord or sang to him. Once a week there was a musicale, at which all who could play on any instrument contributed a share, and dances and dinners were frequently given by the Riedesels and by General Phillips, the major-general in command of the British part of ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... "That's not manners to ask personal questions. But I don't mind telling ye all, confidentially, that I haven't my mind made yet between—a reception at the Vincent Wanderlusts'—or a musicale at the Ritz-Carlton." ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer

... give a dinner?" asked Marian, looking over his shoulder. "Oh, no! I see by the length of your list it's an evening affair, or a musicale." ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney

... bouquets are again the fashion, and a very ugly fashion it is. A lady does not know what to do with her two or three bouquets at a musicale or a dinner, so they are laid away on a table. The only thing that can be done is to sit after dinner with them in her lap, and the prima donna at a musicale lays hers ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... demeanour, although it was the circumstance of Mozart Rabiner's prominence at Geigermann's musicale that had rendered the ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... hostess went on, "we are invited to a musicale across the street, at Mrs. Trowbridge's, where we shall the wonderful little violinist who is being made so much of ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd

... private that their ignorance is not blissful, indeed it is baneful, that these ambitious ladies and gentlemen rush off to the booksellers, to libraries, and literally gorge themselves with the "ologies" and "isms" of the day. Lord, Lord, how I enjoy meeting them at a musicale! There they sit, cocked and primed for a verbal encounter, waiting to knock the literary chip off ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker

... from a musicale, you must carry the music away in your soul, either in definite memories or in a refreshed and more joyous frame of mind, or it is of no avail that you attended, so from social intercourse it is absolutely necessary that you carry ...
— The Etiquette of To-day • Edith B. Ordway



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