dinner dance

a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.

Origin of dinner dance

First recorded in 1900–05

The house is full of people, as they are having a dinner-dance tonight.

Bab: A Sub-Deb |Mary Roberts Rinehart
I'm taking my dress clothes over to Westmore—they're having a dinner-dance to-night.

Nobody's Child |Elizabeth Dejeans
A dinner-dance is pretty much alike 28 in all civilized and semi-civilized communities.

An Orkney Maid |Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
On the following Wednesday evening there was a dinner-dance at the country club.

Flappers and Philosophers |F. Scott Fitzgerald

Arethusa had not the faintest idea what a "dinner-dance" might be.

The Heart of Arethusa |Francis Barton Fox

dinner-dance

a formal dinner followed by dancing