Dorcas society

American  

noun

1. a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for people in need.

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Dorcas society British  

noun

1. a Christian charitable society for women with the aim of providing clothes for the poor

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Etymology

Origin of Dorcas society

First recorded in 1825–35; named after Dorcas

Example Sentences

The Dorcas society can meet at one side while your little Jack and his friends are playing games at the other.

From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)

There is no woman's rights association on the island, nor even a Dorcas society.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The Dorcas society is entirely under my wife's management as a rule, and except for Miss Brett, who, as I say, is very active, I scarcely know any members of it.

From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Mrs. Tarbell looked, in fact, like the president of a Dorcas society or a visitor of a church hospital.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

But at length that subject was dropped and the one of the proposed Dorcas society taken up.

From Christmas with Grandma Elsie by Finley, Martha