petit souper
English edit
Etymology edit
From French petit souper.
Noun edit
petit souper (plural petits soupers)
- A light supper; (especially), an informal dinner party with only a few select guests. [from 18th c.]
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 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.