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Ladies Auxiliary

American  

noun

  1. an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.


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At the right-wing media company The Daily Wire, the ladies’ auxiliary keeps outdoing the dudes.

From Salon

Darcy Dougherty, head trustee of the ladies’ auxiliary for the Eagles, called the outbreak the “perfect storm.”

From Washington Times

“Usually, you go to vote, you have a nice day, you buy some bread from the ladies’ auxiliary at the polling place,” said Brian Shank, a Republican county council member who organized a road parade for Trump last month.

From Washington Post

Arthur Zegers IV, an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Zegers has been involved in politics since high school in upstate New York, where she became the youngest-known officer in the state’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies’ Auxiliary.

From Fox News

The untraditional practice of adding a Bible, and turning what was started as a tradition to honor all POWs and MIAs into a display honoring only Christians, didn't emerge until over 30 years later, when the VFW Ladies Auxiliary published a script for the setting of the table and included the Bible among the items in the 1999 issue of their magazine.

From Salon