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cambric tea

American  

noun

  1. a mixture of hot water and milk, with sugar and, often, weak tea.


Etymology

Origin of cambric tea

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just about as stimulating as a dish of cambric tea .

From Time Magazine Archive

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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