Also 8 tertulla, 8–9 tertullia. [Sp. tertulia a conference, an evening party, soirée.] An evening party in Spain.
1785. Beckford, Italy, Spain [etc.] (1834), II. 305. Of goings to balls, theatres, and tertullias.
1828. W. Irving, in Life & Lett. (1864), II. 273. I have become one of the most dissipated men upon town; continually at soirées and tertullias.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. ii. 161. They meet in church, on the Alameda, and at their tertulias.
