thé dansant
Americannoun
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thés dansants
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of thé dansant
literally: dancing tea
Example Sentences
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There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
Lord Pomfret had just returned from a luncheon-party, and was preparing to attend a thé dansant.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
The huge room was filling rapidly; it was the hour of the thé dansant.
From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
That afternoon before the thé dansant hour he called at the Goodchild residence.
From H. R. by Edwin Lefevre
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
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