cambric tea

noun

1. a mixture of hot water and milk, with sugar and, often, weak tea.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cambric tea¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

The tea came, magically--delicious cambric tea and cinnamon toast.

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She knew how to make the cambric tea and to arrange the jelly and flowers.

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Fact is, I've always been fond of cambric tea, and this is just right.

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Once I sat in a high chair and wore a bib and banqueted on cambric-tea and prunes.

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Young Lochinvar out of the west was mere cambric tea to him.

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