tea basket

American  

noun

British.

1. a lunch basket or picnic hamper.

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Etymology

Origin of tea basket

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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tea basket

They were all in deep mourning, but as they sat in the hay-field around a wicker tea basket and wrapped in steamer-rugs they were comic.

From With the Allies by Davis, Richard Harding

Soon after the horses and the wagon halted and Dan Webster climbed down, bearing the tea basket.

From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Vandercook, Margaret O'Bannon Womack

Funnel made of bamboo to allow the heated air from the choolahs to pass through the tea; it is seldom used; the Chinese tea manufacturers preferring one made in the tea basket by the hand.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

He plucked out his watch and strapping up the tea basket began to push the things hastily into it.

From While Caroline Was Growing by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

"I'm glad General isn't twins," said Miss Honey thoughtfully, pulling her brother back from the fascinations of the tea basket and comforting him with the curtain-rod wand.

From While Caroline Was Growing by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam