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The butler strikes the gong to announce dinner to the household.

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I thought the gong announced that it was time to dress for dinner. [/quote]

No, because people take a variable amount of time to get ready, so dressing time is individual. The gong goes off once when it's about time to come down, and once again to enter the dining room.
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On Downton Abbey it goes off like an hour before dinner. [/quote]

Well, we're not Downtown Abbey!
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But when it's time to come in to dinner, someone announces it. Everyone is supposed to be in the living room/drawing room/parlor by then.

My mom grew up in a house with a gong in the DR. Visiting my grandparents was a fascinating glimpse into a much fancier lifestyle (I grew up in a crunchy college town -- no dinner gong, but every family on our street had its own way of summoning the kids home for dinner in the summer). [/quote]

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