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thé dansant

American  
[tey dahn-sahn] / teɪ dɑ̃ˈsɑ̃ /

noun

French.
thés dansants plural
  1. a tea dance.


thé dansant British  
/ te dɑ̃sɑ̃ /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of thé dansant

literally: dancing tea

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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

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

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

She opened it with a thé dansant, at which she discoursed on the art of dress.

From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson

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 Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

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