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

Leaving the other girls to unpack the tea basket, Marta Clark and Bettina walked quickly back along the road until not a quarter of a mile away they discovered another field of the omnipresent mustard.

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

The two older women were getting out the tea basket and lighting their alcohol lamp, when Jean and Donald insisted on trying to boil the water at one of the hot springs in the neighborhood.

From The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

“Even the roadsides in England are like parks,” observed Elinor presently, as she spread the contents of the tea basket on the grass and put the kettle over the lamp to boil.

From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes

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 Richard Harding Davis

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 P. L. Simmonds