The Power Lunch series brings in local professionals and companies for a formal lunch and learn setting.

He is due to have a formal lunch with the prime minister at number ten Downing Street today..." Another cut.

Very formal lunches or afternoon teas are possibilities.

On summer weekends, the Railway runs a service with formal lunch - a very refined way to take in the sights.

Last March I attended a formal lunch with a minister in China.

'Invitations to their homes for formal and informal lunches, dinners and parties became notably scarce,' he says.

She will have to take outfits for the black-tie dinner, the less formal lunch, the gift-giving and for church.

Traditional formal Italian lunches are a lengthy affair, which usually involves an appetizer, aperitif, or antipasto as starter.

You're gotten up for a boating party - not for a formal lunch.

Following the ceremony is a langar or a formal lunch.