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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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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

Now, if there was anything that Peter Mink disliked, it was cambric tea.

From The Tale of Peter Mink Sleepy-Time Tales by Guzie, Joseph B.

Dot had two plates of it, besides her pretty cup of cambric tea.

From The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Hill, Grace Brooks

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