Meanings of fashionable dinner in English

At a fashionable dinner no one folds his napkin.

I'd like to go to a fashionable dinner myself.

They did not think of having all three: for in their situation they had no desire for a fashionable dinner.

The fashionable dinner hour at that period was much earlier than at present, and but little time elapsed ere the important meal was announced.

Whether Jem Mace would beat Tom Sayers had as much interest at fashionable dinner-tables as whether Lord Derby would dispose of Aberdeen or Palmerston.

They had had to leave in the very middle of one of Mr. Bannerjee's fashionable dinners.

(4) The poor man who attends a fashionable dinner.

Dinner was solemnly announced, and the couples swept out in that stately manner appropriate to solemn occasions, such as marriages, funerals, and fashionable dinners.

"This is one of those fashionable dinners where they have extra hardware beside the plates," he suggested.