teahouse

[ tee-hous ]

noun,plural tea·hous·es [tee-hou-ziz]. /ˈtiˌhaʊ zɪz/.
  1. a restaurant or other establishment, especially in East Asia, where tea and refreshments are served.

Origin of teahouse

1
First recorded in 1680–90; tea + house

Words Nearby teahouse

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How to use teahouse in a sentence

  • The teahouse had been closed for some hours then and our wives were sitting in the dark on the teahouse porch waiting for us.

    Those Times And These | Irvin S. Cobb

British Dictionary definitions for teahouse

teahouse

/ (ˈtiːˌhaʊs) /


noun
  1. a restaurant, esp in Japan or China, where tea and light refreshments are served

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