"sewing circle" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sewing circles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "sewing circle (plural sewing circles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A social meeting of women who congregate to sew and talk together."
      ],
      "id": "en-sewing_circle-en-noun-o0ZYGsNq",
      "links": [
        [
          "sew",
          "sew"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "dated"
          ],
          "word": "kensington"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
          "word": "ompeluseura"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "syklubb"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "syjunta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "syförening"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 January 7, David Freeman, “Closet Hollywood”, in New York Times",
          "text": "If Tallulah wasn't a member of the Sewing Circle it was one of the few lesbian adventures she missed. The Sewing Circle was made up of Hollywood women who were either bisexual, committed to lesbianism, or just visiting. They met at one another's houses for lunch, conversation and possibilities. The Sewing Circle sometimes met at the house of Dolores Del Rio, then married to Cedric Gibbons, the MGM art director.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses during Hollywood's golden age."
      ],
      "id": "en-sewing_circle-en-noun-vGfnOtsA",
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          "code",
          "code"
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        [
          "lesbian",
          "lesbian"
        ],
        [
          "bisexual",
          "bisexual"
        ],
        [
          "golden age",
          "golden age"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, US) A discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses during Hollywood's golden age."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sewing circle"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sewing circles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sewing circle (plural sewing circles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A social meeting of women who congregate to sew and talk together."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sew",
          "sew"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "dated"
          ],
          "word": "kensington"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 January 7, David Freeman, “Closet Hollywood”, in New York Times",
          "text": "If Tallulah wasn't a member of the Sewing Circle it was one of the few lesbian adventures she missed. The Sewing Circle was made up of Hollywood women who were either bisexual, committed to lesbianism, or just visiting. They met at one another's houses for lunch, conversation and possibilities. The Sewing Circle sometimes met at the house of Dolores Del Rio, then married to Cedric Gibbons, the MGM art director.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses during Hollywood's golden age."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "code",
          "code"
        ],
        [
          "lesbian",
          "lesbian"
        ],
        [
          "bisexual",
          "bisexual"
        ],
        [
          "golden age",
          "golden age"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, US) A discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses during Hollywood's golden age."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
      "word": "ompeluseura"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "syklubb"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "syjunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "social meeting of women for sewing and talking",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "syförening"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sewing circle"
}