COCKTAIL PARTY Definition & Meaning

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cocktail party

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a social gathering, often held during the cocktail hour, at which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages, hors d'oeuvres, and canapés are served.

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Origin of cocktail party¹

First recorded in 1925–30

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She was set to depart Accra, the Ghanaian capital, in hours, just after the embassy cocktail party ended.

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Embassy cocktail party, on Jan. 7, the day the Palisades fire broke out.

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And they’ll have plenty of fodder, beginning with photos of Bass at a cocktail party in Ghana on Jan. 7, while the Palisades began to burn.

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As the fire tore through the Palisades hills on Jan. 7, Bass was posing for photos at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana after attending the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama.

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By the time of the cocktail party, Kaspar had turned early research into a promising drug therapy that he was beginning to test on animals — the precursor to a human trial.

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