| 单词 | kitchen tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen tea kitchen tea n. Australian and New Zealand = kitchen evening n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] party1707 kick-upc1781 shiveau1798 shine1882 shivoo1889 kitchen tea1896 percolator1946 shake1946 1896 Evening Star (Dunedin, N.Z.) 28 Oct. A ‘kitchen tea’ is the latest development of the much-abused custom of giving presents to a prospective bride. One of the bride's friends holds an afternoon tea party, and each guest is expected to bring something that will be useful in the kitchen of the bridal pair. 1948 N. Scanlan Rusty Road xvii. 195 A ‘linen tea’ for the bride-elect, and a ‘kitchen tea’ and a ‘China tea’ followed. 1965 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 Nov. 26 Michelle Bowes and Patricia Donovan..gave the bride a kitchen tea on Friday. 1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 116 The more class the families can pretend to the more they can exact in the way of presents at showers, kitchen teas and the like. 2018 @lizsinger_tv 22 July in twitter.com (accessed 14 Aug. 2019) Less than 24 hours after landing back in Australia we hosted a kitchen tea for my Sister's wedding. So many cake stands!!! < as lemmas |
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