tea shop

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noun
  1. a tearoom.

  2. British. a café or tearoom that specializes in serving light meals and snacks; lunchroom.

Origin of tea shop

1
First recorded in 1735–45

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How to use tea shop in a sentence

  • So, on a purely hypothetical rate of exchange, Madge bought three, and we sought the teashop and Jennie.

    The Tower of Oblivion | Oliver Onions
  • Through a small teashop one passed into a sort of leafy cage that, I learned, had at one time been an aviary.

    The Tower of Oblivion | Oliver Onions
  • It was exactly twenty minutes after their entrance into the teashop when the woman finished her monologue.

    The Evil Shepherd | E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • "We'll go in here," Nicholas said suddenly, and led the way into the same teashop where they had sat last night.

    The Beggar Man | Ruby Mildred Ayres
  • There was an old lady who sat near us in a teashop one afternoon.

    Europe Revised | Irvin S. Cobb

British Dictionary definitions for teashop

teashop

/ (ˈtiːˌʃɒp) /


noun
  1. British a restaurant where tea and light refreshments are served: Also called: tearoom

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