tea dance


noun

a dance held at teatime.

Origin of tea dance

First recorded in 1880–85

Example sentences from the Web for tea dance

  • No fire-arms are used at the tea-dance, and the guns and tomahawks and knives play the principal part in the war dance.

  • There was a tea-dance at the fraternity house during Prom week.

    The Plastic Age |Percy Marks

British Dictionary definitions for tea dance

tea dance

noun

a dance held in the afternoon at which tea is served