Today the Common serves as a public park for all to use for formal or informal gatherings.

There wasn't a lot she could do with her hair, because of its length, but for more formal gatherings she always put it up.

I've never seen him at any formal gathering.

Clan meetings take place each summer with a formal gathering every second year.

Just a little formality at these very formal gatherings, you understand.

They do this through a 'Call for Evidence' - a formal gathering of views.

See expanded the house by adding a ballroom and hosted large formal gatherings at the property.

The small, formal gathering seemed well suited for Vanessa's reemergence into public life.

One day, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, the group, as a formal gathering, will end.

Committees, task forces and less formal gatherings have emerged.