cambric tea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cambric tea
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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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
Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Lochinvar out of the west was mere cambric tea to him.
From The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
"I'd like to go out with papa," said Lucy, who sat carefully drinking her cambric tea, so that she might not spill a drop on the mahogany table.
From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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