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levee
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(not the river embankment)
synonyms: drawing-room ???
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Definition:a reception or assembly of people---1. The act of rising.2. A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.Note: In England a ceremonious day reception, when attended by both ladies and gentlemen, is called a drawing-room.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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I used to attend the king's levee once or twice a week, and had often seen him under the barber's hand, which indeed was at first very terrible to behold; for the razor was almost twice as long as an ordinary scythe.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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The levee was drawing to a close. People met as they were going away, and gossiped of the latest news, of the newly bestowed honors and the changes in the positions of the higher functionaries.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Toward noon he dropped in at the judge's and talked with Mrs. Pratt about the great event of the day, the levee of the distinguished foreigners at Aunt Patsy Cooper's.
Mark Twain. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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