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Maura da Vicopisano
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Mon Feb 26 08:15:48 PST 2001
> >What I consider a "Tea" to be brings images of when ladies would
> >gather in the Queen's Solar to sew, spin, gossip have light snacks
> >and warm themselves in elegant company. "Queen's Solar" perhaps?
> No. That's the Ladies' Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society.
Sorry, the OED records the first occurence of Terrorist to 1795, and the
first occurence of Sewing Circle to 1846.
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