cambric tea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cambric tea
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup 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
Just about as stimulating as a dish of cambric tea .
From Time Magazine Archive
Martha was serving refreshments—animal crackers and cambric tea.
From Honey-Sweet by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
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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