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

It really began with a tea basket, holding enough for two, which was opened one lovely afternoon under the big willows skirting that little strip of land bordering the backwater at Cookham-on-Thames.

From Felix O'Day by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

She seized her tea basket under one arm and a box of ginger snaps under the other.

From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Speed, Nell

But to-morrow we shall have a picnic to make up for it, and Miss Ruth may take her tea basket, since we have none in this household.”

From The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow by Crane, Laura Dent

Nothing escaped the child, not even the elegant little tea basket with its fittings of silver and French china.

From The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow by Crane, Laura Dent

"The guitar and the tea basket and the luncheon hamper—" "And the mackintoshes?" finished Nicholas.

From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Stokes, Katherine