cambric tea

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of cambric tea

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

She had just the sort of cakes girls like best, and strawberries and cream, and the “cambric tea,” as Mrs. Adams called it, was rich with cream and sugar.

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No sweet crackers and ‘cambric tea’ for mine, if you please!”

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Fact is, I've always been fond of cambric tea, and this is just right.

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

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If you don’t mind my taking part of the milk for it, I could have milk-toast and we could drink cambric tea.”

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