tea-visiting

Updated: June 23, 2025

At length many of the parents, pleased with the improvement so visible in the young people, got a habit of dropping in, that they might learn how to instruct their own families; and it was observed that as the school filled, not only the fives-court and public houses were thinned, but even Sunday gossipping and tea-visiting declined.

Hannah More - The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales