Farmers often drop into the hotel after dinner for a convivial evening, so the dining room functions as the equivalent of a British pub.

"I was looking forward to a convivial evening, just me and you."

Sufficient beer and other intoxicants were consumed by the recruits to make it a convivial evening.

During a convivial evening Edward had let slip that he intended to arrest Robert the next morning.

By the end, of course, they were thoroughly enjoying themselves because they'd had a bit to drink and it was a jolly convivial evening.

Grosz died suddenly of heart failure that resulted from (or perhaps caused) a serious fall after a too convivial evening.

He would try to get things down on paper the morning after a convivial evening - "Sot that I am!"

It was, in fact, a most convivial evening.

It was close to dawn when they were joined by Seward, red of face from what must have been a long convivial evening.

More than a time, it is a geography unto itself, the boundary in a 24-hour town between the convivial evening and the solitary night.