tea dance
a dance held at teatime.
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How to use tea dance in a sentence
Class matters went all too slowly between the time of the tea dance announcement and the affair itself.
The Orchard Secret | Cleo GarisIn the afternoon they attended a baseball game, and then returned to the fraternity house for another tea-dance.
The Plastic Age | Percy MarksNo fire-arms are used at the tea-dance, and the guns and tomahawks and knives play the principal part in the war dance.
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear | Theresa GowanlockThere was a tea-dance at the fraternity house during Prom week.
The Plastic Age | Percy MarksWe might call it a tea dance, said Betty, as she escorted her two freshmen over to the girls gymnasium.
Betty Lee, Senior | Harriet Pyne Grove
British Dictionary definitions for tea dance
a dance held in the afternoon at which tea is served
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