Paraguay tea
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Paraguay tea
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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Last year a campaign to launch Paraguay tea in New York as "a new drink with a.new kick" petered out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hard-boiled Argentine reason for the embargo: an "infant industry" producing Paraguay tea in Argentina has been started in the past few years, gives employment to some 50.000 Argentine laborers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mate, Yerba, or Paraguay tea has been a national beverage for millions of people in the central portions of South America for several centuries.
From Tea Leaves by Francis Leggett
Of the Paraguay tea they have a good store, the yerba being a commodity which packs in small space.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney
Maté.—Maté, yerba maté, or Paraguay tea, is the leaf of a shrub, a species of holly, growing profusely in the forests of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
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