Paraguay tea

American  

noun

1. mate.

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Paraguay tea British  

noun

1. another name for maté

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Etymology

Origin of Paraguay tea

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Hard-boiled Argentine reason for the embargo: an "infant industry" producing Paraguay tea in Argentina has been started in the past few years, gives employment to some 50.000 Argentine laborers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year a campaign to launch Paraguay tea in New York as "a new drink with a.new kick" petered out.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the better class of houses he was offered Paraguay tea, or mattee, an infusion of a South American herb.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

Robertson, has favored me with some details as to the production of Paraguay tea.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Maté.—Maté, yerba maté, or Paraguay tea, is the leaf of a shrub, a species of holly, growing profusely in the forests of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)