wctu

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wctu - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Woman's Christian Temperance Union \Woman's Christian Temperance
  Union\
     An association of women formed in the United States in 1874,
     for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive,
     educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. It is also
     known as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and by its
     acronym WCTU or W.C.T.U.. It was one of the political
     forces leading to passage of the constitutional amendment,
     later repealed, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic
     beverages.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]