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Definition of Quilting bee
1. Noun. A gathering to make quilts.
Definition of Quilting bee
1. Noun. A social event in which people get together to make a quilt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quilting Bee
Literary usage of Quilting bee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brimstone Bargains in the Marriage Market =: Or, the Traffic in Sex by F. G. Tyrrell (1904)
"THE quilting bee TWO GIRLS POLITE STRANGERS DULL COMPANY THE NEW WOMAN—TWO LETTERS
... THE quilting bee. "I tell you it all depends on how a girl marries, ..."
2. Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler by Samuel Strickland (1853)
"The quilting bee usually concludes with a regular evening party. The young people
have a dance. The old ones look on. After supper, the youthful visitors ..."
3. "Dame Curtsey's" book of party pastimes for the up-to-date hostess by Ellye Howell Glover (1912)
"quilting bee. IV. Apple-paring Bee. V. Singing Bee. ... For the "quilting bee"
have a real frame with cheese-cloth comforter in, the boys being obliged to ..."
4. History of McDonough County, Illinois: Its Cities, Towns and Villages, with by S. J. Clarke (1878)
"Among the more general forms ot amusements was the "quilting bee," the ...
Quilting-bee," as its name indicates, was where the industrious qualities of that ..."
5. The History of the County of Brant, Ontario: Containing a History of the by J.H. Beers & Co (1883)
"By degrees bits of store-purchased finery appeared at the Sabbath meeting, at
the quilting bee, or the apple-paring. The mysteries of the quilting bee were ..."
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