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the school dance where corsages cost more than the suits underneath them.

means A return to one's home or origin, especially the annual celebration when former students, athletes, and alumni come back to their old school for festivities, a game, and a dance.

from A plain English compound, joining 'home' (Old English 'hām,' the dwelling place, related to German 'Heim') with 'coming,' the act of arriving. The word for the literal act of returning home is centuries old, but the American school tradition — alumni streaming back to a campus for a football game and reunion — took the name in the early 20th century, and the high-school dance later borrowed it from there.

war origin
Started as alumni reunions, not teenage romance
royalty fiction
Crowns a king and queen who rule nothing
mum madness
Texas mums can weigh several pounds
football tether
Built around welcoming alumni back to a game
missouri claim
University of Missouri claims the 1911 first
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