Definition of "dinner-hour" [dinner-hour]

• Alternative form of dinner hour. (noun)

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• "At the dinner-hour there were none to be met upon the stairs but honest folks, who, after having seen the Dauphiness take her soup, went to see the Princes eat their bouilli, and then ran themselves out of breath to behold Mesdames at their dessert."
• "Soothfast tidings had assured him that this nobleman was at length, and without fail, to honour his castle at one in the afternoon, being a late dinner-hour; and much was the bustle in consequence of the annunciation."
• "Miller; “for we call noon the dinner-hour at Kennaquhair?”"