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Tea

noun

A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.

A light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes. Synonyms: afternoon tea, teatime.

A tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves. Synonym: Camellia sinensis.

A reception or party at which tea is served.

Dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea. Synonym: tea leaf. "They threw the tea into Boston harbor"

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"Tea" Quotes from Famous Books

... neeps and tatties in his life." Dauvit sighed. "But I sometimes used to look at the twa o' them when their bairns were roond their knees, and syne I used to gie a big Dawm! and ging back to my wee hoose and mak my ain tea." ...

— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill

... nobody believes that there are red rats, though there is plenty of first-hand evidence of men having seen them in delirium. Finally, I said I would see ghosts myself, and continue to argue against their actual existence. So I collected a handful of cigars and drank several cups of very strong tea, and went without my dinner, and retired into a room where there was dark oak and all the chairs were covered with tapestry; and my brother went to bed bored with our argument, and trying hard to dissuade me from making myself uncomfortable. All the way up the old stairs ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

... ground. Chung told me that in the south cats and dogs are fattened for food, which it occurred to me would be a distinct advantage in Port Arthur at that time, with a siege imminent, and a great abundance of those animals observable. For drink I naturally had plenty of tea, though it is very washy stuff as made by the Chinese, who usually content themselves with putting the leaves in a cup and pouring hot water over them, flavouring the infusion with tiny ...

— Under the Dragon Flag - My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War • James Allan

... that old people don't have any—wants. See here. They're having a party down there—a party, and they must have got it up themselves. Such being the case, of course they had what they wanted for entertainment—and they aren't drinking tea or knitting socks. They're dancing jigs and eating pink peppermints and ice cream! Their eyes are like stars, and Mother's cheeks are like a girl's; and if you think I'm going to offer those spry young things a brown neckerchief and a pair of bed-slippers ...

— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter

... East Bay, some tea and talk, them home by King. The horses have an antiquated plod; The team is old, but not too old to balk If driven north ...

— Carolina Chansons - Legends of the Low Country • DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen

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