Citations:kitchen supper

Noun: "The evening meal for household staff"

 * 1854, Annie Elnidge, "A Tale for Parents", The Anglo-American magazine, volume 4, page 416
 * They did not often, I believe, eat in company with their dependents, but they keep up the old custom of being present at the kitchen supper in order to see that every one was properly served, and behaved with due decorum.
 * 1869, uncredited, "Consenting Unto Sin", People's Magazine, volume 4, issue 19, page 63
 * "Well cook, you ain't often caught in the wrong, I'll say that; and if you makes your place pay you well, you know how to put good food on our table as well as the master's. What shall I set for the kitchen supper to-night? it's most time I got it ready."
 * 1903, Frank Norris and O. Henry, Everybody's Magazine, volume 2, page 365
 * Between her and her employer would never arise the questions of inadequate bedroom accommodation, of the use of the bathtub, of kitchen suppers, of company — of all those privileges which housekeepers cannot or will not grant yet which the domestic worker should share with other wage-earners.
 * 1918, Ethel Alex-Tweedy, Women and Soldiers, page 145
 * Hence the housekeeper has not only to think over and order breakfast for five, but a midday meal for the domestic region, with evening dinner for the husband and kitchen supper for the maids.

Noun: "An informal meal served for guests"

 * 1984, Nicholas Wapshott, Peter O'Toole: A Biography, page 171
 * He entertained a very small number of people — the closest of close friends — to kitchen suppers in his glorious cottage which he was finishing with his own hands.
 * 1999, Alison Becker Hurt, Kitchen Suppers, back cover
 * Kitchen suppers are meals that sometimes—but don't have to—take place in the kitchen. Always cooked with ease and love, they can be shared with family and friends—or sometimes eaten by yourself.