ceremonial tea

American  

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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Example Sentences

Then in 2010, the Pasadena Buddhist Temple donated a small ceremonial tea house to the garden, which was disassembled and sent back to Japan to be refurbished before being shipped back to San Marino, where it was reassembled.

From Los Angeles Times

“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

Him he regards as inevitable; and consents gloomily to conduct his tainted band to a ceremonial tea in the Housemaster's drawing-room.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive