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pink tea

noun

, Informal.
  1. a formal tea or reception.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pink tea1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Example Sentences

I'll bet you won't look as if you'd just dropped in from a pink tea!

Indeed, his heavy, pink-tea attentions were obviously regarded as quite flattering by the fair recipients!

She wore the prettiest pink tea-gown imaginable, and her hair was a wonder of puffs and curls.

She had put on a gay pink tea-gown, with masses of white lace and smart little bows in unexpected places.

If he repudiated these ideas, then Jonas would denounce him as a "mollycoddle," a "pink tea Socialist," a "labor faker."

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