tea lady
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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You knew the name of everyone, the tea lady, the guy who did the pitch.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023
After all, it’s only in a Richard Curtis movie that a posh British man ends up with an English tea lady.
From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2017
He is tea lady Long Joan Silver, the lynchpin in a plot involving Wendy's great-great-grandaughter, also called Wendy, Tinkerbell on a motorised scooter and the boy who still hasn't grown up, Peter.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2016
From the tea lady to the trainees, Aitor Karanka insists on professionalism and a winning mentality from everyone at the Riverside.
From BBC • Aug. 12, 2016
After tea, lady Feng hastened to lay out the cups and chopsticks.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
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