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Dorcas society
Dorcas society
noun
- a Christian charitable society for women with the aim of providing clothes for the poor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Dorcas society1
First recorded in 1825–35; named after Dorcas
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Example Sentences
A Dorcas Society is kept up by a few ladies; and collections are made annually for foreign missions and other objects.
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Here comes a group of little barefoot children to the door of the Dorcas Society.
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The lady receives at ten a young missionary and three members of the Dorcas Society.
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One would think you were at a Dorcas Society, I said, getting rattled.
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Thank you so much for the flannel for the Dorcas Society, and also for the gingham.
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