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coffee morning

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noun

  1. a social event (often held in order to raise money) at which coffee is served

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To emphasise his point, he is speaking in the club's boardroom which is full, not of wealthy football club bosses, but of locals enjoying a free coffee morning.

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Among them is 88-year-old Kenneth Saville, who says he comes to the coffee morning for "family, company and cake".

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By and large, this Republican women's coffee morning was happy with what they heard.

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I met Lake this summer at a coffee morning hosted at a retirement community in Wickenburg, a couple of hours north of Phoenix.

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At its weekly coffee morning at the local shopping centre, there was a lot of confusion about the rebate.

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