Women's Christian Temperance Union

Cultural  

1. An organization founded in the late nineteenth century in the United States that encouraged total abstinence from alcohol. It was one of the leading forces in bringing about prohibition. Its symbol was a white ribbon. (See Carry Nation.)

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Example Sentences

Thus, the movement led by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League made theirs a moral crusade for a humane cause.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Catt had been a 14-year-old teacher in Iowa, and both belonged to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2019

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union quickly became the nation’s largest women’s organization.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017

When the Women’s Christian Temperance Union scolded her “decollete” gowns, she ignored them.

From Washington Post

Contractors had begun erecting two of the firm’s newest, tallest Chicago skyscrapers, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Temple and the Masonic Fraternity Temple, at twenty-one stories the tallest building in the world.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson