harvest supper

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Even now this habit, well known in this country as the "harvest supper," is the last to disappear.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

And yet it was worth something, too, to be the one to authorize that harvest supper in the big barn, in the confidence that it would be anything but revelry. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

I ne'er sot up so i' MY life, not to say as it warna a marr'in', or a christenin', or a wake, or th' harvest supper.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

Besides there's our old song that we always sing at harvest supper, where it comes in—'We'll drink and dance like Pharisees.'

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

At the harvest supper or dinner the man who “carried the Pig” gets one or more dumplings made in the form of pigs.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir