cambric tea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cambric tea
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Just about as stimulating as a dish of cambric tea .
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"You look to me as if you needed some cambric tea," Mrs. Rabbit said.
From The Tale of Peter Mink Sleepy-Time Tales by Guzie, Joseph B.
Mr. and Mrs. Totty were served with their invitation over a breakfast-table where meekness and humility were administered with the rolls and poured out with the weak cambric tea of the little ones.
From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)
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