ceremonial tea

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noun

a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.

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In contrast, Boehner's leadership team filed into his ceremonial office and greeted the teary newly-elected Speaker with hugs.
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“Stay in formation,” a sergeant from the ceremonial unit said over a public address system to the cops along the street.
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Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the Tea Party.
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M'Bongo, the great chief of this neighbourhood, paid a ceremonial visit to my husband.
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Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.
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This impulse to extend rule appears more plainly in many of the little ceremonial observances of the child.
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Afterwards we saw you once or twice at tea at the Ritz, and you took off your hat, so you must have remembered then.
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Janet might have said before leaving: "Tea had better not wait too long--Hilda has to be down at Clayhanger's at half-past six."
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