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pink tea
noun
, Informal.
- 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!
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Indeed, his heavy, pink-tea attentions were obviously regarded as quite flattering by the fair recipients!
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She wore the prettiest pink tea-gown imaginable, and her hair was a wonder of puffs and curls.
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She had put on a gay pink tea-gown, with masses of white lace and smart little bows in unexpected places.
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If he repudiated these ideas, then Jonas would denounce him as a "mollycoddle," a "pink tea Socialist," a "labor faker."
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