Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meeting of women for the purpose of assisting one of their number in quilting a counterpane: usually followed by a supper or other entertainment to which men are invited.
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Examples
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A quilting-bee in Pacoima has equal "awesomeness" to the sudden and complete pulling out of the troops from Afghanistan.
Stefan Haves: Cirque Is Awesome ! So is this Soy Latte. Stefan Haves 2010
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A quilting-bee in Pacoima has equal "awesomeness" to the sudden and complete pulling out of the troops from Afghanistan.
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A quilting-bee in Pacoima has equal "awesomeness" to the sudden and complete pulling out of the troops from Afghanistan.
Stefan Haves: Cirque Is Awesome ! So is this Soy Latte. Stefan Haves 2010
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Maybe if you had a bunch of friends over and did it quilting-bee style.
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The husking-bee and the quilting-bee afforded sources of much enjoyment.
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Miss Prue say quickly, "Oh! that reminds me, Sara, I want you to be sure to go to Betty's quilting-bee; you will, won't you?"
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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"Dear Mrs. Steenwyck," but no reply to an invitation to a quilting-bee beginning "Dear Mrs. Steenwyck."
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
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The young lady has received an invitation to a quilting-bee from a Mrs. Steenwyck and, anxious to make a correct reply, she has bought a Complete Letter Writer to aid her to this end.
Perfect Behavior 1922
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There was an afternoon quilting-bee at Mrs. Wully Johnstone's, to which some young people had been invited for the evening, and there she met the young schoolmistress.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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Johnstone, who lived on the next farm, and knew the minute family history of everyone in the county of Simcoe, had informed the last quilting-bee that a certain Coulson -- and no distant relative of the young schoolmaster either -- had kept a tavern in the early days down by the lake shore.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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