subs. (vulgar: once literary).—An invitation.
1615. G. SANDYS, A Relation of a Journey, 305. The Lamprey swims to his Lord’s INVITES.
1778. BURNEY, Diary (1876), i. 73. Everybody bowed and accepted the INVITE but me.
1836. DICKENS, Sketches by Boz, ‘Steam Excursion.’ Guest after guest arrived, the INVITES had been excellently arranged.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ To give all his old friends that farewell ‘INVITE.’
