cambric tea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cambric tea
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea.
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Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea.
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Just about as stimulating as a dish of cambric tea .
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Young Lochinvar out of the west was mere cambric tea to him.
From The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
She knew how to make the cambric tea and to arrange the jelly and flowers.
From Rebecca Mary by Donnell, Annie Hamilton
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