thé dansant

American  

[tey dahn-sahn] / teɪ dɑ̃ˈsɑ̃ /

noun

French.

• thés dansants
  plural

1. a tea dance.

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thé dansant British  

/ te dɑ̃sɑ̃ /

noun

1. a dance held while afternoon tea is served, popular in the 1920s and 1930s

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• thés dansants
  plural

Etymology

Origin of thé dansant

literally: dancing tea

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

thé dansant

There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016

Of course," he admitted, "we are not at a thé dansant or a cabaret.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller

We went back once more to a thé dansant given for her seventeen-year-old daughter.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington

Another beautiful brand new day to play with, a day full of delightful, adventurous surprises--a débutante's luncheon, a matinée, a thé dansant, a dinner, too.

From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford

The huge room was filling rapidly; it was the hour of the thé dansant.

From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell