Meaning of pink tea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fashionable formal tea party or other social gathering; specifically, one organized and attended chiefly by women to discuss matters of suffrage, raise funds for charity, etc.
   US, countable, historical, uncountable
2. Any exclusive social gathering.
   US, broadly, countable, uncountable
3. Something (as an event or policy) excessively polite and refined; specifically, one regarded as ineffective and weak.
   US, also, attributive, countable, figuratively, uncountable
4. A hot drink from the Indian subcontinent with a pink colour, made with gunpowder tea, baking soda, and milk.
   India, Pakistan, uncountable

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Examples

“Feb. 4, they served a pink''' tea, from which they realized $19.70.”

“Why, Maud, it’s too delightful to be real, and I am so glad I live in Cloverfield, for it’s getting to be altogether a charming place, with its ‘Pink Teas’ and ‘Corn Festivals,’ etc. But now for a very important question, What are you going to wear?”

“"Why—why—we bring flowers for the pulpit every Sunday, and we have lovely literaries and socials; and we gave a pink tea for missions last spring, and had such a nice time, besides making $25 for the cause," Annie answered, glibly. […] "Oh, Annie, Annie, what weak babes in Christ you are! Don't you know that this is only the mint, anise, and cummin of service? Pink teas and literaries the work of Jesus Christ!"”

““I went to a ‘Pink Tea’ the other day,” said Littleton, “and hereafter ‘brown beer’ will be good enough for me.[…]” […] I clean forgot the point, and stood there before all those stunning girls grinning like—like an idiot at a ‘pink tea.’”

“It is said that the jargon of these women [tea leaf pluckers], when sorting tea, is just about as intelligible and interesting as the conversation at a sewing bee, a fashionable pink tea or a German kaffeeklatsch.”

“At the expiration of the solemn ceremonies connected therewith Private Flanagan of the Irish tent arose, and, after congratulating the learned doctors of the Keeley Club on the success of the meeting, invited all present to attend a pink tea that would be held in his tent that evening at eight p.m.”

“They might lose their reverence for our pretentious Senate when they see how Senators spend their mornings reading novels and their afternoons attending pink teas, instead of studying questions of public welfare.”

“Q. Now, Mr. Mitchell, your testimony indicates that you know just what kind of language is used around a garage? / A. Yes, sir. / Q. It is not always a little pink tea affair? / A. No; sometimes I "cuss" a lot myself. / Q. And when the men, and even the bosses talk, it isn't the kind of language you hear at a pink tea, particularly? / A. Yes.”

“In the interest of self-preservation invoke spirit of Paul Revere to awaken Americans in these mournful times against soft-headed thinking and pink-tea diplomacy. Let us look to our own ramparts and man them like Americans.”

“The Court permitted one picket at each point of entry and exit from the plant, an arrangement promptly dismissed by the unions as "pink tea" picketing.”

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