SC - Queen's Teas? Period terms?

[david friedman]

>  > >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.

That's the first usage in English. Wasn't he translating from Ruritanian?
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