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  Bohea

  noun

  an inferior grade of black tea.
• bohea
  bohea

  noun

  a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade

Bohea

American  

[boh-hee] / boʊˈhi /

noun

1. an inferior grade of black tea.

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bohea British  

/ bəʊˈhiː /

noun

1. a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade

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Etymology

Origin of Bohea

1695–1705; < dialectal Chinese (Fujian) Bu-i, mountains on the border of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, where the tea is grown

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Next, I stepped into Oliver Pluff’s Tea Shop, which blends historically significant teas, like Colonial Bohea, recorded among the varieties tossed into Boston Harbor in 1773.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

At Barrett’s apothecary, Eliza purchased jalap and Bohea tea.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

With this view, the Nature of Green, Souchong, and Bohea teas is first considered.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

The Canton plant, however, is not cultivated in the North; on the Bohea hills themselves, speaking botanically, there grows no Bohea tea; the plant there, also, is the Thea viridis.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

These four stocks are Bohea, Ankay, Hyson, and Singlo—names derived from the places in which they are particularly cultivated.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh

In return for that, she will perhaps condescend to pour you out a cup of bohea.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

Then Finikin's mamma observed, "Dear Prince, it seems to me, She looks as if she'd like to drink A cup of my bohea."

From Under the Window Pictures & Rhymes for Children by Kate Greenaway

The reason attributed for bohea tea being less injurious than green is, being more hastily dried, the pernicious qualities more copiously evaporate.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

Among black teas are bohea, congou, souchong, and pekoe; among green, hyson, imperial, and gunpowder.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

No washerwoman sips her bohea with greater gusto.

From Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell

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