subs. (old).—1.  A fashionable party; and (2) ‘a card party at a private house’ (GROSE). As verb. = to assemble in company.

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  1775.  SHERIDAN, The Rivals, i. 1. A tall Irish baronet she met … at Lady Macshuffle’s ROUT.

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  18[?].  MACAULAY [TREVELYAN, I. 265]. I have attended a very splendid ROUT at Lord Grey’s.

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