Dutch feast
English
Noun
Dutch feast (plural Dutch feasts)
- (archaic) An entertainment where the host becomes drunk before the guests.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 72:
- We sat to a late hour, but, as I wished to avoid making a Dutch feast of it, I acted with caution and kept tolerably sober.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 72:
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