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Tea dance

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1885, OED Evaluation: Canadian

a social gathering held by Indians, so called because in the early days the Hudson's Bay Company contributed tea, bannock, etc.’

ExampleMeaning
And there were school-dances of course and tea dances and formal things where you got all dressed up.
Type of formal dance
Yeah. You-know I was- if you got invited to it you were lucky. And then you could go down to the auditorium where they held the tea dances which were in the afternoons and hopefully somebody would ask you to dance. Stand there like a wallflower.
Type of formal dance
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Speaker: Oh yes. That 's with the poodle-skirt-'n-days and the saddle-shoes and jitterbugging. Oh yeah. I- I never did that much involved but I mean, the- the experts, you went down under the- your- the- your part-- in between your partner's legs and up over their head. Yeah, never got that involved but- at- and that- at school, we had what they called tea dances and I used to- Interviewer: Afternoon-dances, right? Speaker: Afternoon-dances.
Type of formal dance
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I thought "I 'm going to have to go on at least te-- tea dances." So I went to the tea- dance, and the boys were all standing around, the girls were all dancing together
Type of formal dance
I thought "I 'm going to have to go on at least te-- tea-dances." So I went to the tea dance, and the boys were all standing around, the girls were all dancing together
Type of formal dance
So I knew, that was so much, and I- I still didn 't know how to get to meet her, and then I heard they were starting tea dances at tea- at four-o 'clock on Friday, after school...
Type of formal dance
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Ah well they weren't weekly, maybe once a month. And then at the school we'd have tea dances, which would- like started at four-o'clock and they'd- we'd dance in the auditorium of the new school, but before that it was Teen-Town, and um also there was ah I don't know what some- like we were always seemed to be with all the other kids.
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But you see even in like in high-school at- at B-C-I, they had dances, what they call tea dances, and they'd get a little orchestra in, in the gymnasium and everybody would dance.
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I don’t know. I s-- I can’t even remember if we had one at B-C-I. We used to have tea dances after school but I don’t remember what we used for music. Must’ve been a jukebox or-something.
Type of formal dance
ExampleMeaning
Oh there's dances, we had afternoon tea dances and dancing- dances at the night. Not late dances or-anything-like-that, but they had quite a few formal dances. And um I debated and I and I- I can't- I- I think- I did a few things, but I- oh I- I was in ah one- I was in ah Romeo-and-Juliet, I had a taste of acting and I loved.
Type of formal dance
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Yeah. And um- oh we used to have tea dances. We called them tea dances. Started at five in the afternoon and you got all dressed up. I remember some of the dresses I had and the hairdos I had and I always liked to dress up nice and ah um- and then we'd have ah- Friday afternoons
Type of formal dance
Yeah. And um- oh we used to have tea dances. We called them tea dances. Started at five in the afternoon and you got all dressed up. I remember some of the dresses I had and the hairdos I had and I always liked to dress up nice and ah um- and then we'd have ah- Friday afternoons
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