the dansant
Example Sentences
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There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
We went back once more to a thé dansant given for her seventeen-year-old daughter.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
The huge room was filling rapidly; it was the hour of the thé dansant.
From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice
On his return, he passed a florist’s, and, remembering that Frances was going that afternoon to a thé dansant, did the decent thing and sent up a dozen roses, which cost him five dollars.
From The Wall Street Girl by Wolfe, George Ellis
That afternoon before the thé dansant hour he called at the Goodchild residence.
From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin
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