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ceremonial tea

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noun

  1. 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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“We had ceremonial tea, and they said they had been waiting for the American people for a very long time,” Brusseau says.

From Seattle Times Jan. 10, 2021

Meeting over cups of ceremonial tea the Japanese Cotton Spinners' Federation voted unanimously to boycott raw Indian cotton.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colored substance that had the most influence on the structure of Japanese taste is a green powder called matcha, or ceremonial tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had stayed only a few minutes, drinking the ceremonial tea that was offered so shyly.

From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

For this ceremonial tea, a special set of utensils is used, all of antique and severely simple style.

From Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

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