DCHP-3

trousseau tea

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tea-party at which a bride shows off her trousseau to her friends and accepts gifts for adding to it.

Quotations

1930
We went today to another Trousseau Tea--Mrs. Burns, (No, she is not getting married; she is going to New York.)
1951
". . . I don't believe there is any reference in Westermarck to such ceremonies as showers and trousseau teas which appear to be purely indigenous rites--"