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pink tea 
n. a social gathering attended chiefly by women.
- 1886 The Pink Tea held under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union on last Friday evening passed off quite pleasantly. The ladies in charge were all fittingly attired with pink caps and aprons and some of the gentleman patrons wore pink ties.
- 1923 Hector liked to talk to the clergyman, because Northcote knew life as few men know it . . . no pink-tea preacher, shivering at the sight of sin . . .
- 1952 That those who knew us best gave us their support is evident while the voters to whom we were only a name mentioned disparagingly at the clique's pink teas and in their favorite publication, tended to avoid us as the plague.
- 1886 The Pink Tea held under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union on last Friday evening passed off quite pleasantly. The ladies in charge were all fittingly attired with pink caps and aprons and some of the gentleman patrons wore pink ties.