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

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

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

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

From A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce by Bangs, John Kendrick

I think there is still a little milk, for it didn’t take much for the cambric tea, and we can have more of that.

From A Dear Little Girl at School by Blanchard, Amy Ella