tea dance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tea dance
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Northern Ireland is marking VE Day with a series of events, including a tea dance at Belfast City Hall.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
“Last Tango in Halifax” ended with the leads, Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid, at a tea dance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
As You Are’s Half-and-Half combines a drag show and tea dance, offering both drag kings and DJs from 3 to 8 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2022
In 1981, 114 people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a tea dance.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
How about startin' in with the tea dance at the Admiral, just opened?
From Torchy and Vee by Ford, Sewell
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